Documenting the Web together

Re:Documenting the Web together by clairity on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:07PM (#15501414)

the MDN example (unfortunately at the bottom of the page) is more correct by using a proper <label> tag with the <input> tag, while w3schools omits that detail, which makes it seem like plain text labels with <br> tags (yuck) after them are ok (label tags add accessibility among other things).

tl;dr: use <label>'s with <input>'s, not plain text labels, as MDN shows you to do.

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Re:Documenting the Web together by a2sheppy on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:16AM (#15508605)

Hi from one of MDN's writers!

So, we're aware that the examples being way at the bottom of the page are frustrating to a lot of people because of the usefulness of having a simple example you can learn from or even snag and use in your own code.

That's why we have work ongoing to not only place examples at the tops of pages, but to make the examples interactive so you can make changes to the code right on the page. There's some info about it here: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/interactive-editors-in-beta/....

I'm glad you approve of our use of <label> to correctly label inputs. We are not yet 100% consistent about this, but we're on the job!

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