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   <H1>[whatwg] [WF2] Label with empty for attribute</H1>
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    <B>Anne van Kesteren</B> 
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    <I>Sat Jan 21 02:40:59 PST 2006</I>
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<PRE>Quoting Simon Pieters &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org">zcorpan at hotmail.com</A>&gt;:
&gt;<i> It is not defined what should happen when a label has an empty for=&quot;&quot; 
</I>&gt;<i> attribute. Consider the following example:
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</I>&gt;<i>   &lt;label for=&quot;&quot;&gt;foo&lt;input&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
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</I>&gt;<i> Is the label element part of the .labels DOM attribute for the input? 
</I>&gt;<i> What should the label's .control DOM attribute return?
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I think &quot;for&quot; should be treated analogously to &quot;form&quot;. That would mean 
that the
&lt;label&gt; element is not associated with any control.

However, currently the specification states that for labels that point to
elements that are not form controls the &quot;for&quot; attribute must be ignored. Which
would imply that descendents can get focus...

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Anne van Kesteren
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