Permitted content #

Permitted attributes #

Descriptions for attributes specific to this element #

for = IDREF

Identifies a form control for which the label is a caption.

Additional constraints and admonitions #

• The label element must not contain any nested label elements.
• The label element may contain at most one descendant input element, button element, select element, or textarea element.
• The for attribute of the “label” element must refer to a form control.
• The interactive element label must not appear as a descendant of the a element.
• The interactive element label must not appear as a descendant of the button element.

Permitted parent elements #

any element that can contain phrasing elements

DOM interface #

interface HTMLLabelElement : HTMLElement {
  readonly attribute HTMLFormElement form;
           attribute DOMString htmlFor;
  readonly attribute HTMLElement control;
};

Typical default display properties #