Label element 'for' attribute question

[Jacob Farber]

Just to be sure, there are caveats to styling the legend element, esp. in FF. 
http://papayapariah.com/2008/11/13/css-positioning-the-legend-tag/

Hiding and showing doesn't sound difficult though, if that's all your after.
Jacob


-----Original Message-----
From: fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org [mailto:fluid-work-bounces at fluidproject.org] On Behalf Of Eli Cochran
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:25 AM
To: Anastasia Cheetham
Cc: Fluid Work
Subject: Re: Label element 'for' attribute question

The default styling is easy to override with a css-reset. You could  
even hide the legend, although I don't know what this would do for the  
screen reader.

- Eli

On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:

>
> On 24-Mar-09, at 2:01 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>
>> I would recommend using the fieldset element to group the  
>> checkboxes and the legend element to provide a label for the  
>> group.  An example / tutorial can be seen at: http://www.webstandards.org/learn/tutorials/accessible-forms/intermediate/
>
> Everett thanks for the suggestion.
>
>> Sadly, most browsers, from what I remember, like to add stupid  
>> styling to the frameset / legend so it will take some CSS work to  
>> make this look the way you want it to.
>
> That's a good point. Maybe Jacob knows how easy it is to change the  
> styling of the fieldset/legend combination.
>
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> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley


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