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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: element content change
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:37:45 +0100
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"Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> writes:
<snip>
> ACK.  Or maybe better:
>
>   <label id=citylabel><input type=text id=city> City</label><br>

That looks logically wrong to me -- a label should not include the thing
it labels.  My only back-up is the examples in[1], which all show the
control outside, with the label element containing just, well, the
label.

> as Yukka already suggested.

He seemed to be making a different point, though always including some
text in the label was part of it.

<snip>
[1]  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-LABEL
-- 
Ben.