

Idea for improved Checkbox and Radio Buttons (call for discussion)

From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:52:29 -0600
Message-Id: <199709101952.NAA19170@austin.bsdi.com>
To: www-talk@w3.org
In most GUI frameworks, checkbox and radio button *include* the labeling
text so you have a larger target for selection.  However, with HTML
you must select the (usually) tiny box to effect the change.

but it's obviously too late for that.

So it would seem that we need some way of grouping label text along
with the input field such as:

    <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="box1" VALUE="Selected"> BOX #1

Such that selecting ``BOX #1'' would activate the checkbox.

There is a colision with the function of <A HREF=""> inside the
enclosing tags (does the selection then activate the anchor or
the checkbox) so that would need to be resolved (though it's
probably more a function of the user interface than the
markup spec).

It would also be upto the browser authors to define the visual effects,
if any, of this tag and style-sheets would probably want to be able
to specify sunken/raised attributes, etc (hopefully in a portable way).
Received on Wednesday, 10 September 1997 15:53:59 UTC
