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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: element content change
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:59:21 +0200
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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).

-- 
Christoph M. Becker