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Bug 27247 - :active should match the labeled control of a label element that is currently matching :active (like :hover)
Summary: :active should match the labeled control of a label element that is currently...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#selecto...
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Reported: 2014-11-05 12:19 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-01-07 08:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-11-05 12:19:44 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#selector-active
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#selector-active
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Comment:
:active should match the labeled control of a label element that is currently
matching :active (like :hover)
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3288

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Comment 1 Florian Rivoal 2014-11-10 13:43:42 UTC 
Browsers are already interoperable about this, as this works on Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE (tested IE11).

Presto does not, but it shouldn't matter.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2015-01-06 23:33:23 UTC 
This seems like it would lead to really bad UI (e.g. making it look like buttons are being pressed even though they aren't), with no way to work around it (there's no :active-no-really-not-someone-else pseudo-class). But since it's interoperably implemented... :-(
Comment 3 contributor 2015-01-06 23:34:08 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8873.
Check-in comment: Match reality better for :active, even though this is suboptimal UI-wise.
https://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8872&to=8873
Comment 4 Simon Pieters 2015-01-07 08:05:13 UTC 
You wouldn't have a label for a button. For radio buttons and checkboxes it seems to me it is good UI.