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I am <legend>: the form element with special powers

Posted Jan 11, 2020

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If you know anything about web accessibility, then you probably already know that all <input> elements need to have a <label> (or failing that, an aria-supplied label).

What you may not know is what to do when you have something like this:

The radio buttons have… two labels. How do you have two labels?

2 labels 1 input

Now you might be forgiven for thinking that the way to solve this problem is as simple as it sounds:

<label>
What do you have for sale?
<label>
<input type="radio" name="sale" value="spam">
Spam
</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="sale" value="morespam">
More Spam
</label>
</label>

Unfortunately this doesn’t work. According to the [...]

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