[Zope3-dev] Re: browser widgets: items widgets and label tags

[Gary Poster]

On Nov 12, 2006, at 7:30 AM, yuppie wrote:

> Hi Benji!
>
>
> Benji York wrote:
>> yuppie wrote:
>>> Adding additional complexity for getting the label issue  
>>> perfectly right doesn't fit much to the rest of the code. And I  
>>> doubt any browser will have trouble with 'for' attributes  
>>> pointing to a non-control element.
>> The "for" attributes in labels are used heavily in  
>> zope.testbrowser functional tests.  If the human readable labels  
>> no longer correctly identify the controls, control IDs or names  
>> would have to be used instead, which is not conducive to good tests.
>
> This is already broken for choice checkbox and radio widgets. In  
> these cases we have no 1:1 relationship between widget labels and  
> controls. (Though sometimes additional 1:1 labels within the  
> widgets do work.)

an aside:

If they are set up correctly (i.e., using the spec) then labels for  
checkbox or radio buttons certainly should work.  If they don't,  
that's a bug.

Then also, fwiw, if they are part of a collection of fields, you can  
use `.control` to get the "virtual" umbrella control for the  
collection of radio buttons or checkboxes.

Gary