Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/30/06 14:37

Silkster wrote:
> Hi everyone...Hope you can help me...
>
> I have quiet a few forms to create soon and Iam not totaly up on
> them...
> What I would link to to do is instead of having the <lable> then the
> <input>
> is just have the form field with the instructions in side eg:
> [__Enter Your First Name Here_____]
> and when the user click in the filed the text disapears.
>
> I know this can be done with javascript and the ecomerce site I am
> doing needs to have javascript switched on
>
> But what do I do with the lable field?
> and what impact does the senarion have on accessability?

Don't know, but I think most are intuitive and can understand when they
see a label "Name;" and a text box to the left that their name should be
entered in that box. LABEL and INPUT will work on all browsers and even
text only ones (e.g., Lynx) whereas JavaScript will not. If extra
instruction is required you can always add it "Date (yy-mm-dd):" and
follow up with your validation...

There is something to be said for convention, put a cylindrical knob
half way up and on the right side of door and folks' first impulse will
be to turn it and not press that button in the center to open the door.
Convention is your friend as a designer...



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Take care,

Jonathan
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