Perhaps Chris
But standards people are interested in following standards, not what
others may do. We are meant to be leaders, not followers. I also know
some people who still want tabled layouts running in Mambo. That
doesn't mean their options are either standards compliant nor sensible.
There's nothing stopping us from:
id ="form element_1"
id ="form element_2"
id ="form element_3"
if we need to order elements. Or have I missed something?
Joe
On Feb 8 2008, at 07:30, Chris Knowles wrote:
Joe Ortenzi wrote:
I would have thought so. Isn't that what the id attribute is used
for? Something for JavaScript to reference?
Chris Knowles wrote:
CK> from what I can see the reason lists have come into use in
forms has a
CK> lot to do with javascript libraries that have re-ordering of
elements by
CK> drag and drop that tend to work mainly on lists. Therefore
lists are CK> useful to wrap form elements if you are creating
form building software
CK> so the form elements can be easily reordered by non-technical
users.
I suppose that form elements can be easily reordered even if form
elements are not LI-wrapped. Can't they?
yes, but my point was that a lot of js libraries base drag and drop
re-ordering of elements around list elements and not other
elements. And I have noticed a lot of form building services use
lists to markup forms because they require drag and drop re-
ordering of form elements. So I'm suggesting they are only using
list elements because they can add drag and drop easily by using an
external library that supports it, not because they think lists are
necessarily a good markup choice.
--
Chris Knowles
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