title: Legacy IE hack: label not focusing input
body: <p>I am working with legacy code and I've stumbled across this piece of art:</p>
  
  <pre><code>//IE Hacks
  if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') {
      $("label").live('click', function() {
          $('#'+$(this).attr('for')).click().click().click();
      });
  }
  // End IE Hacks
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was told this was written, because labels were not always working in IE and this trick fixed it. Also it didn't work with two <code>.click()</code> calls, but the all three were needed.</p>
  
  <p>The jQuery version used is <code>1.4.2</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I want to refactor this to use feature detection and a more elegant solution.</p>
  
  <p>I looked on Google for label problems in IE and stumbled only on problems with hidden inputs.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know what could be the problem which this code solves?</p>
  
  <p>Is there a more elegant solution?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>:</p>
  
  <p>Do you think there is not a problem which this code could have possibly solved and I should just remove it?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE 2</strong>:</p>
  
  <p>I have found a problem with labels on the site. Here is a piece of HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="remember-me"&gt;
      &lt;input type="hidden" name="remember" value="0"&gt;
      &lt;input type="checkbox" id="remember" name="remember" value="1" class="checkbox-input" rel="remember"&gt;
      &lt;label class="label-remember" for="remember"&gt;Keep me logged in&lt;/label&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This HTML code is inserted into the page with Ajax so it might be related to the problem described from kevmc.</p>
  
  <p>In Internet Explorer 7 clicking the label does not check the checkbox. Instead it focuses the label (with a thin dotted border).</p>