label

Form

Attributes

attribute	default	description
id	none	specifies the id name
class	none	specifies the style sheet class
style	none	specifies the style sheet
for	none	specifies the id for the form control element the label references

Support

HTML 4.01 [STF], XHTML 1.0 [STF], XHTML 1.1, XHTML Basic
Microsoft (MSDN)
[IE4 or later][Firefox 1 or later][Safari 1 or later][Opera 6 or later][Netscape 6 or later]

Explanation

The label tag groups the input form element and the display text, and handles them as one element.

Related Tags

fieldset, form, input, legend

Sample Code [Output]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=shift_jis">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample</h1>
<form method="get" action="../bbs.cgi">
<label><input type="checkbox">UNIX</label>
<label><input type="checkbox">MacOS</label>
<label><input type="checkbox">Windows</label>
</form>
</body>
</html>