HTML tags inside <label>
HtmlNestedLabelHtml Problem Overview
I have a table in a page that consists of checkboxes in the cells on the left and descriptions in the cells on the right. The "description" contains h4 headers and plain text. I want to make that whole description (everything inside <td></td>
) a label.
So each row looks like this:
<tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="entiries[]" value="i1" id="i1"></td>
<td><label for="i1">
<h4>Some stuff</h4>more stuff..
<h4>Some stuff</h4>more stuff..
</label>
</td></tr>
This does not work however, the text does not act like a label and is not clickable. I'm using Firefox 3.6 to test it. If I remove <h4>
tags it starts working, but that complicates formatting. Is there something about <h*>
tags that prevents <label>
from working correctly?
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
Block level elements (to which h4
belongs) are not allowed inside inline elements, and will cause undefined behaviour. You can use span
elements instead.
Solution 2 - Html
Only inline elements (except other label elements) may appear inside label elements.
<!ELEMENT LABEL - - (%inline;)* -(LABEL) -- form field label text -->
ā http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1
It doesn't make sense to put headings there anyway.
Solution 3 - Html
The <label>
element in HTML is an inline level element and cannot contain block level elements.
This is probably what's causing your issues. Alternatively you can put your labels inside the <h4>
's :
<tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="entiries[]" value="i1" id="i1"></td>
<td><
<h4><label for="i1">Some stuff</label></h4>more stuff..
<h4><label for="i1">Some stuff</label></h4>more stuff..
</label>
</td></tr>
Solution 4 - Html
Here on MDN they explain exactly why NOT to use headings inside a label tag:
> Placing heading elements within a