> -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Beattie > > kewl. thanx for the clarification > > cheers > barry.b > >
FYI http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.10 Using FIELDSET and LEGEND is also the correct way to group mandatory input labels and fields together on forms for accessibility. You group all mandatory fields together and label them as such. Then blind users know which fields are mandatory and which are not. It makes more sense from a general usability point of view too. You hardly see it anywhere, but it is the correct way to do it, because all the current methods are problematic from an accessibility point of view. Also, if you go back and read the major GUI Guidelines, web standards follow the same principles. But you have to be careful using FIELDSET. It is so underused that user agent developers have just about been ignoring it. It can cause weird behaviour causing client side scripting bugs and also CSS bugs (mainly not wrapping within a class, which is often solved by adding a DIV element, just so text wraps). Geoff ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
