26339 2014-07-15 18:29:47 +0000 Imperatively change (set/add/remove) a form control's labels 2014-09-18 21:20:15 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-label-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian caitpotter88 ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 108954 0 contributor 2014-07-15 18:29:47 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-label-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-label-element Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: It bothers me that `htmlFor` is essentially the only way for us to imperatively change a control's associated labels. The reasons why are obvious, it depends on either name or id to be present, and name/id have undesirable side-effects. It would be super useful if we had a better way to do this. The use-case is basically to provide a way to associate a label with a control without putting any nodes in the global object, and without adding any properties to an HTMLFormElement, but still providing the UI benefits of associating the label with the control. Posted from: 99.237.75.191 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36 110951 1 ian 2014-09-03 23:14:37 +0000 Can't you just be the control inside the <label>?