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Re: element content change

From "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: element content change
Date 2014-08-07 00:54 +0200
Organization solani.org
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> writes:
>
>> 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.

I have to admit that this construct is counter-intuitive, and might be
even regarded as illogical.  However, in practise it often saves some
further markup, especially the ID (which is quite convenient, if the
markup is generated), and maybe a surrounding "block-level" element.

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

Yes, you're right.  I've read Yukka's post to fast.

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

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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element content change teddybubu@gmail.com - 2014-08-05 17:05 -0700
  Re: element content change Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-08-06 11:23 +1000
    Re: element content change Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-06 02:47 +0100
      Re: element content change "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-08-06 06:47 +0300
        Re: element content change Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-06 20:27 +0100
      Re: element content change "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-08-06 15:16 +0200
        Re: element content change Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-06 20:37 +0100
          Re: element content change "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-08-06 23:19 +0300
            Re: element content change Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-06 21:54 +0100
              Re: element content change Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-06 21:59 +0100
            Re: element content change "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-08-07 00:59 +0200
              Re: element content change "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-08-07 08:28 +0300
                Re: element content change Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-08-07 11:42 +0100
                Re: element content change "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-08-08 18:48 +0200
          Re: element content change "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-08-07 00:54 +0200
  Re: element content change teddybubu@gmail.com - 2014-08-05 19:36 -0700
    Re: element content change Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2014-08-06 08:52 +0200
  Re: element content change Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 12:52 +0000
  Re: element content change teddybubu@gmail.com - 2014-08-06 05:58 -0700

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