21051 2013-02-19 20:04:23 +0000 "Enabling and disabling of form controls" allows disabling a parent element to disable that element's contents if and only if that element is a fieldset. However, the ability to do such group disablin [...] 2013-03-25 23:53:56 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 83346 0 contributor 2013-02-19 20:04:23 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: "Enabling and disabling of form controls" allows disabling a parent element to disable that element's contents if and only if that element is a fieldset. However, the ability to do such group disabling is useful for other elements, and the ARIA spec "correctly" defines the aria-disabled behavior as applying to all child elements of the disabled container. Scenario: A tab control which wishes to disable an entire tab of unknown content, without interfering with the content directly. Applying "disabled" to the tabpanel element itself would allow declarative disabling of regions without non-semantic use of fieldset elements. Posted from: 2001:4898:90:1004:1420:3dad:494b:4625 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0) 84973 1 ian 2013-03-25 23:53:56 +0000 Just use <fieldset> as the tab panel. That's exactly the right semantic — a group of controls.