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Whoa! I'm a big fan of yours. You've really inspired me to think more creatively about the web/software. Thanks a ton, I'm glad this reached you.


Ah well hello! I'm not sure I've been recognized like that on the internet before. Thank you, that makes me very happy!

From your website it looks like we're in the same city; feel free to shoot me an email (mine is in my profile) if you'd like to grab coffee sometime :)


After looking at the source for this, I have a tangential question (feel free to answer even if you aren't the OP):

Whats the advantage of creating a separate `label` element before/after the input and using `for=` compared to simply wrapping the target input in the label element, like the code snippet below?

    <label>
      Your Name?
      <input />
    </label>

It seems to me that there is a lot less room for error when not using IDs, so I always wrap the input. My pages use a client-side webcomponent to inject fragments of HTML into the page (navbar, footer, etc), and using IDs almost always cause conflicts in the end, so I avoid ID attributes in all but a few very rare instances.


Upside (of implicit labels) is that there's no more gap and you can avoid the exclusivity of `id` attributes (as you mention).

Downside is that screen readers may not handle the implicit label as well as one with explicit for= on it.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/


Note that the <input> tag does not need and does not use a closing slash and never has in any HTML standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/input.html#the-input-elemen...


It was required in the XHTML 1.0 specs, people carried it over I don’t know why but everyone stopped validating html so nobody cared.


Sure, but ... what about the question I posed?




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