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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: element content change
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:42:34 +0100
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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> writes:

> 2014-08-07 1:59, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>
>> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>>
>>> <LABEL>
>>>     First Name
>>>     <INPUT type="text" name="firstname">
>>> </LABEL>
>>>
>>> So this is a valid way, and kept valid in HTML5, but not a logical way.
>>> There is the practical impact that some old browsers do not support this
>>> way (clicking on the label text does not focus on the control) but they
>>> support the more logical way.
>>
>> Which browsers are you referring to?  The oldest browser I'm aware of
>> that is still in somewhat widespread use is IE 6, and that does properly
>> handle this construct (at least in standards mode--I'm not concerned
>> with quirks mode).
>
> According to my notes, IE 6 did not support "implicit association" and
> support was added in IE 7. When I tested this long ago, I focused (no
> pun intended) on checkboxes and radio buttons, for which the
> accessibility effect is much more important.

For what it's worth, my IE6 VM (which I never thought I'd bother with
again!) behaves as you describe.

-- 
Ben.