Label form control html

HTML Tag

The tag is also used to define keyboard shortcuts and jump to the active element like links.

An input can be associated with several labels. If you click or tap a which is associated with a form control, the resulting click event will arise for the associated control.

Associating a with an element has some advantages:

• The label text is both visually and pragmatically associated with the text input.
• You can click on the associated label for focusing or activating the input, as well as on the input itself.

Syntax

The tag comes in pairs. The content is written between the opening () and closing () tags.

There are two ways to associate a text label and the form to which it belongs:

Example of the HTML tag:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> head> body> form> label for="lfname">First name: label> input id="lfname" name="fname" type="text" /> form> body> html>

Result

Example of the HTML tag with an element inside:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> head> body> form> label>Name input id="User" name="Name" type="text" /> label> form> body> html>

Example of HTML with a tag used with radio type of an tag:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> head> body> form> label for="barca">Barcelona label> input type="radio" name="team" id="barca" value="Barcelona"> br /> label for="real">Real Madrid label> input type="radio" name="team" id="real" value="Real Madrid"> br /> form> body> html>

Example of the HTML tag with CSS font properties:

html> html> head> title>Title of the document title> style> body < padding: 20px; > label < font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; color: #1c87c9; > input < width: 50%; height: 28px; padding: 4px 10px; border: 1px solid #666; background: #cce6ff; color: #1c87c9; font-size: 16px; > style> head> body> form> label>Your Name: label> input id="User" name="Name" type="text"/> form> body> html>

Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
accesskey	accesskey	Defines a hot key with which you can go to the attached to the label (through a for attribute) form element.
for	element_id	Sets the ID of the element to which the label should be bound.
form	form_id	Specifies the form (s) with which the label will be associated. This attribute allows you to place tags in an arbitrary location in the document, and not just as a descendant of the element. Obsolete.

How to style tag?

Common properties to alter the visual weight/emphasis/size of text in tag:

• CSS font-style property sets the style of the font. normal | italic | oblique | initial | inherit.
• CSS font-family property specifies a prioritized list of one or more font family names and/or generic family names for the selected element.
• CSS font-size property sets the size of the font.
• CSS font-weight property defines whether the font should be bold or thick.
• CSS text-transform property controls text case and capitalization.
• CSS text-decoration property specifies the decoration added to text, and is a shorthand property for text-decoration-line, text-decoration-color, text-decoration-style.

Coloring text in tag:

• CSS color property describes the color of the text content and text decorations.
• CSS background-color property sets the background color of an element.

Text layout styles for tag:

• CSS text-indent property specifies the indentation of the first line in a text block.
• CSS text-overflow property specifies how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signalled to the user.
• CSS white-space property specifies how white-space inside an element is handled.
• CSS word-break property specifies where the lines should be broken.

Other properties worth looking at for tag:

• CSS text-shadow property adds shadow to text.
• CSS text-align-last property sets the alignment of the last line of the text.
• CSS line-height property specifies the height of a line.
• CSS letter-spacing property defines the spaces between letters/characters in a text.
• CSS word-spacing property sets the spacing between words.

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: The Label element

The HTML element represents a caption for an item in a user interface.

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Associating a with a form control, such as or offers some major advantages:

• The label text is not only visually associated with its corresponding text input; it is programmatically associated with it too. This means that, for example, a screen reader will read out the label when the user is focused on the form input, making it easier for an assistive technology user to understand what data should be entered.
• When a user clicks or touches/taps a label, the browser passes the focus to its associated input (the resulting event is also raised for the input). That increased hit area for focusing the input provides an advantage to anyone trying to activate it — including those using a touch-screen device.

To explicitly associate a element with an element, you first need to add the id attribute to the element. Next, you add the for attribute to the element, where the value of for is the same as the id in the element.

Alternatively, you can nest the directly inside the , in which case the for and id attributes are not needed because the association is implicit:

label> Do you like peas? input type="checkbox" name="peas" /> label> 

The form control that a label is labeling is called the labeled control of the label element. Multiple labels can be associated with the same form control:

label for="username">Enter your username:label> input id="username" name="username" type="text" /> label for="username">Forgot your username?label> 

Elements that can be associated with a element include , (except for type=»hidden» ), , , , and .

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

The value of the for attribute must be a single id for a labelable form-related element in the same document as the element. So, any given label element can be associated with only one form control.

Note: To programmatically set the for attribute, use htmlFor .

The first element in the document with an id attribute matching the value of the for attribute is the labeled control for this label element — if the element with that id is actually a labelable element. If it is not a labelable element, then the for attribute has no effect. If there are other elements that also match the id value, later in the document, they are not considered.

Multiple label elements can be given the same value for their for attribute; doing so causes the associated form control (the form control that for value references) to have multiple labels.

Note: A element can have both a for attribute and a contained control element, as long as the for attribute points to the contained control element.

Styling with CSS

There are no special styling considerations for elements — structurally they are simple inline elements, and so can be styled in much the same way as a or element. You can apply styling to them in any way you want, as long as you don’t cause the text to become difficult to read.

Examples

Defining an implicit label

label>Click me input type="text" />label> 

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HTML Form Elements

This chapter describes all the different HTML form elements.

The HTML Elements

The HTML element can contain one or more of the following form elements:

The Element

One of the most used form element is the element.

The element can be displayed in several ways, depending on the type attribute.

Example

All the different values of the type attribute are covered in the next chapter: HTML Input Types.

The Element

The element defines a label for several form elements.

The element is useful for screen-reader users, because the screen-reader will read out loud the label when the user focus on the input element.

The element also help users who have difficulty clicking on very small regions (such as radio buttons or checkboxes) — because when the user clicks the text within the element, it toggles the radio button/checkbox.

The for attribute of the tag should be equal to the id attribute of the element to bind them together.

The Element

The element defines a drop-down list:

Example

The elements defines an option that can be selected.

By default, the first item in the drop-down list is selected.

To define a pre-selected option, add the selected attribute to the option:

Example

Visible Values:

Use the size attribute to specify the number of visible values:

Example

Allow Multiple Selections:

Use the multiple attribute to allow the user to select more than one value:

Example

The Element

The element defines a multi-line input field (a text area):

Example

The rows attribute specifies the visible number of lines in a text area.

The cols attribute specifies the visible width of a text area.

This is how the HTML code above will be displayed in a browser:

You can also define the size of the text area by using CSS:

Example

The Element

The element defines a clickable button:

Example

This is how the HTML code above will be displayed in a browser:

Note: Always specify the type attribute for the button element. Different browsers may use different default types for the button element.

The and Elements

The element is used to group related data in a form.

The element defines a caption for the element.

Example

This is how the HTML code above will be displayed in a browser:

The Element

The element specifies a list of pre-defined options for an element.

Users will see a drop-down list of the pre-defined options as they input data.

The list attribute of the element, must refer to the id attribute of the element.

Example

The Element

The element represents the result of a calculation (like one performed by a script).

Example

Perform a calculation and show the result in an element:

HTML Exercises

HTML Form Elements

Tag	Description
	Defines an HTML form for user input
	Defines an input control
	Defines a multiline input control (text area)
	Defines a label for an element
	Groups related elements in a form
	Defines a caption for a element
	Defines a drop-down list
	Defines a group of related options in a drop-down list
	Defines an option in a drop-down list
	Defines a clickable button
	Specifies a list of pre-defined options for input controls
	Defines the result of a calculation

For a complete list of all available HTML tags, visit our HTML Tag Reference.

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