Comments on: ASP.NET Nested TextBox Bug

By: ginji

ginji — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:33:12 +0000

Hmm, having re-read it now, I see that you are talking about them separately, but it’s not overly clear that you are. I would say most developers would have the labels and elements separate, not nested, and I don’t really see any advantage in having them nested. What benefit do you see in having them nested?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:58:28 +0000

Regarding the not having to nest:

I said as much.

The problem is that it works one way without internationalization and doesn’t work once you add it. And most of us are going to creat our sites without internationalization turned on first only to find out that we have to rework all of our presentation layer once we decide to add internationalization into the mix.

By: ginji

ginji — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:03:10 +0000

You don’t have to nest the controls in order to make the label render as a label, just setting the associatedcontrolid is enough. Nesting the controls does produce valid XHTML though.

If you want to group elements of a form together, you should use the ‘fieldset’ and ‘legend’ (X)HTML tags

You should be using all of the above to make your forms accessible to those with visual impairments that use a screen reader.