On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
What's wrong with:
<label for="myfield">Instructions</label>
<input id="myfield" etc />
<label for="myfield" class="error"> Must be a valid value</label>
Can an input not have 2 labels?
Thomas Broyer skrev:
Or even:
<label>Instructions <input etc> <strong class=error>Must be a valid
value</strong></label>
Both of these suggestions lack the precision, the semantics and the
flexibility of my suggestion.
Vz Thomas B's solution:
- What if a designer wishes to have the error messages grouped together
on the top of the page, instead of next to the input fields and manages
to come up with a solution that is very usable?
- For the default UA error messages to be inserted correctly it must
honour the classname as a microformat. Since that must be spec'd, it
might just as well be a real element.
Vz Robert M's solution:
- Where would the UA put a default error message, in the first or second
label?
- How could assistive technologies differentiate between normal
instructions and specific errors?
Lars Gunther
