Using label in html forms

HTML Forms

An HTML form is used to collect user input. The user input is most often sent to a server for processing.

Example

The Element

The HTML element is used to create an HTML form for user input:

The element is a container for different types of input elements, such as: text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, submit buttons, etc.

All the different form elements are covered in this chapter: HTML Form Elements.

The Element

The HTML element is the most used form element.

An element can be displayed in many ways, depending on the type attribute.

All the different input types are covered in this chapter: HTML Input Types.

Text Fields

The defines a single-line input field for text input.

Example

A form with input fields for text:

This is how the HTML code above will be displayed in a browser:

Note: The form itself is not visible. Also note that the default width of an input field is 20 characters.

The Element

Notice the use of the element in the example above.

The tag defines a label for many form elements.

The element is useful for screen-reader users, because the screen-reader will read out loud the label when the user focuses on the input element.

The element also helps users who have difficulty clicking on very small regions (such as radio buttons or checkboxes) — because when the user clicks the text within the element, it toggles the radio button/checkbox.

The for attribute of the tag should be equal to the id attribute of the element to bind them together.

Radio Buttons

The defines a radio button.

Radio buttons let a user select ONE of a limited number of choices.

Example

A form with radio buttons:

Choose your favorite Web language:

This is how the HTML code above will be displayed in a browser:

Choose your favorite Web language:

Checkboxes

The defines a checkbox.

Checkboxes let a user select ZERO or MORE options of a limited number of choices.

Example

This is how the HTML code above will be displayed in a browser:

I have a bike
I have a car
I have a boat

The Submit Button

The defines a button for submitting the form data to a form-handler.

The form-handler is typically a file on the server with a script for processing input data.

The form-handler is specified in the form’s action attribute.

Example

A form with a submit button:

This is how the HTML code above will be displayed in a browser:

The Name Attribute for

Notice that each input field must have a name attribute to be submitted.

If the name attribute is omitted, the value of the input field will not be sent at all.

Example

This example will not submit the value of the «First name» input field:

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: The Label element

The HTML element represents a caption for an item in a user interface.

Try it

Associating a with a form control, such as or offers some major advantages:

• The label text is not only visually associated with its corresponding text input; it is programmatically associated with it too. This means that, for example, a screen reader will read out the label when the user is focused on the form input, making it easier for an assistive technology user to understand what data should be entered.
• When a user clicks or touches/taps a label, the browser passes the focus to its associated input (the resulting event is also raised for the input). That increased hit area for focusing the input provides an advantage to anyone trying to activate it — including those using a touch-screen device.

To explicitly associate a element with an element, you first need to add the id attribute to the element. Next, you add the for attribute to the element, where the value of for is the same as the id in the element.

Alternatively, you can nest the directly inside the , in which case the for and id attributes are not needed because the association is implicit:

label> Do you like peas? input type="checkbox" name="peas" /> label> 

The form control that a label is labeling is called the labeled control of the label element. Multiple labels can be associated with the same form control:

label for="username">Enter your username:label> input id="username" name="username" type="text" /> label for="username">Forgot your username?label> 

Elements that can be associated with a element include , (except for type=»hidden» ), , , , and .

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

The value of the for attribute must be a single id for a labelable form-related element in the same document as the element. So, any given label element can be associated with only one form control.

Note: To programmatically set the for attribute, use htmlFor .

The first element in the document with an id attribute matching the value of the for attribute is the labeled control for this label element — if the element with that id is actually a labelable element. If it is not a labelable element, then the for attribute has no effect. If there are other elements that also match the id value, later in the document, they are not considered.

Multiple label elements can be given the same value for their for attribute; doing so causes the associated form control (the form control that for value references) to have multiple labels.

Note: A element can have both a for attribute and a contained control element, as long as the for attribute points to the contained control element.

Styling with CSS

There are no special styling considerations for elements — structurally they are simple inline elements, and so can be styled in much the same way as a or element. You can apply styling to them in any way you want, as long as you don’t cause the text to become difficult to read.

Examples

Defining an implicit label

label>Click me input type="text" />label> 

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Using label in html forms

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