From the course: Building HTML5 Forms with Dreamweaver
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Effective use of labels - Dreamweaver Tutorial
From the course: Building HTML5 Forms with Dreamweaver
Effective use of labels
- Before we look at why we might not want to use labels, let's emphasize what they are, what value they add, and how they work. Now, here's a form, and as you see, I've got a little excess verbiage. Let's take a look at this in a browser and I'll show you what I mean. Little excess verbiage between asking a client for their email address and the actual input where they enter the email address; however, if I click on the email label, did you notice that the email input became focused, or active? So labels connect, and in a more classic example, if I just tap on the phone label, that input becomes active. This is valuable, especially for people who are using a keyboard and a mouse. It's also valuable for people who have various kinds of disabilities. It makes it easier for them to select an input and fill out a form. Let's go back to Dreamweaver and refresh and remind ourselves of how the syntax works. We have label for email and that connects to the email input through matching IDs. So…
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