Comments on: Semantic Forms http://blog.dynamic50.com/2009/07/23/semantic-forms/ Ruby on Rails, London - The Blog by Dynamic50 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:10:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matthias Willerich http://blog.dynamic50.com/2009/07/23/semantic-forms/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Matthias Willerich Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:46:48 +0000 http://blog.dynamic50.com/?p=403#comment-29 I've come across the opinion that checkboxes and radiobuttons should be grouped by a fieldset, as they are, well, a set of fields that belong together. You can nest fieldsets as much as you like, but as I'm sure you've encountered, they're stroppy when it comes to styling them. Other than that I always welcome it when somebody can take the time to decide on how to do-something-right. It's things like this that make your life so much easier in the long run, because instead of pondering which solution you should attempt this time, you've got a set up that works for you, that you can run with in 80% of all cases. I’ve come across the opinion that checkboxes and radiobuttons should be grouped by a fieldset, as they are, well, a set of fields that belong together.

You can nest fieldsets as much as you like, but as I’m sure you’ve encountered, they’re stroppy when it comes to styling them.

Other than that I always welcome it when somebody can take the time to decide on how to do-something-right. It’s things like this that make your life so much easier in the long run, because instead of pondering which solution you should attempt this time, you’ve got a set up that works for you, that you can run with in 80% of all cases.

]]> By: Dan Pickett http://blog.dynamic50.com/2009/07/23/semantic-forms/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Dan Pickett Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:28:20 +0000 http://blog.dynamic50.com/?p=403#comment-28 I completely agree with this convention. Unfortunately, there isn't a clean way (without some creative class names) to correlate/bind a dt to its subsequent dd. I've also had issues with this as it relates to checkboxes. Usually I prefer the checkbox to the left of my label, and this generally breaks the css conventions I have set up. Hopefully as the HTML5 spec continues on, we'll see something that both works structurally and sementically. great post. I completely agree with this convention. Unfortunately, there isn’t a clean way (without some creative class names) to correlate/bind a dt to its subsequent dd.

I’ve also had issues with this as it relates to checkboxes. Usually I prefer the checkbox to the left of my label, and this generally breaks the css conventions I have set up.

Hopefully as the HTML5 spec continues on, we’ll see something that both works structurally and sementically.

great post.

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