HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<label>
Function
Creates a label for a form element
accesskey
,
class
,
dir
,
for
,
id
,
lang
,
onBlur
,
onClick
,
onDblClick
,
onFocus
,
onKeyDown
,
onKeyPress
,
onKeyUp
,
onMouseDown
,
onMouseMove
,
onMouseOut
,
onMouseOver
,
onMouseUp
,
style
,
title
Attributes
</label>
; never omitted
End tag
Contains
label_contents
Used in
form_content
9.10.1.1. Implicit and explicit associations
One or more labels get associated with a form control in one of two ways:
implicitly, by including the form control as contents of the label tag, or
explicitly, by naming the ID of the target form control in the
<label>
tag's
for
attribute.
For example, in XHTML:
