I had a very similar issue with my feedback form.

Eventualy I split it into three fieldsets: your feedback, your details, 
and a privacy statement.

http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/feedbackform.cgi
- Kane



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/05/2007 11:16:11 PM:

> > It probably shouldn't be used for pairing as you describe, but rather 
a
> > group of inputs that all share some common-ground. In my case I use 
them 
> > to contain groups of required versus non-required inputs as well as 
the 
> > type of information sought (contact info, etc.).
> 
> Sorry to bring this up again but I've been thinking a bit more about 
this: 
> a fieldset should be used to group related form controls and each 
fieldset 
> should have a legend, but what if you have a form control that's not 
> really related to anything else? Do you put it in a fieldset by itself? 
> Then what do you do about the legend when in a lot of cases it'll simply 
 
> be duplicating what's in the label?
> 
> For instance, a form which has contact details and a message text area 
> might be split into one fieldset for the contact details and another for 
 
> the message (I know it could probably be argued that it could all go in 
> one fieldset but let's say for argument's sake that there's another 
> fieldset in between requesting the user to select from a series of 
> checkboxes that needs to go in its own fieldset). There's only really 
one 
> way to say "this is where your message goes" without being redundant, so 
 
> do you use a 2nd fieldset or go for a generic div to avoid the 
repetition 
> of legend/label?
> 
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