<LABEL>

<LABEL>, an HTML 4.0 element supported by Netscape6 and MSIE, defines a set of text which is associated with a specific form element. For illustration, code below indicates that phrase "send more information" is associated with "moreinfo" checkbox as checkbox is within the <LABEL> element:

<HTML>

<BODY>

<LABEL FOR="moreinfo">

Send more information

<INPUT NAME="moreinfo" TYPE=CHECKBOX ID="moreinfo">

</LABEL>

</HTML>

FOR attribute is required in above illustration. Value of FOR must be the same as value of ID in the form field that label applies to.

You can also associate a <LABEL> with a field which is not within its contents using the FOR attribute.

Attribute for <SELECT>

TABINDEX = integer

TABINDEX is supported by Netscape 6 and MSIE 4.x higher.

Usually, when user tabs from field to field in a form (in a browser which allows tabbing, not all browsers do) tab order is the order in which fields appear in HTML code.

Although, sometimes you want tab order to flow a little differently. In that scenario, you can number the fields using TABINDEX. Tabs then flow in order from one with the lowest TABINDEX to highest.

Code below explains this:

<HTML>

<BODY>

<TABLE BORDER CELLPADDING=3 CELLSPACING=5

BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC">

<TR>

<TD>name: <INPUT NAME="realname" TABINDEX=1></TD>

<TD ROWSPAN=3>comments<BR>

<TEXTAREA COLS=25 ROWS=5

TABINDEX=4></TEXTAREA></TD></TR>

<TR> <TD>email: <INPUT NAME="email" TABINDEX=2></TD></TR>

<TR> <TD>department: <SELECT NAME="dep" TABINDEX=3>

<OPTION VALUE="">...

<OPTION VALUE="mkt">Marketing

<OPTION VALUE="fin">Finance

<OPTION VALUE="dev">Development

<OPTION VALUE="prd">Production</SELECT></TD></TR>

</TABLE>

</HTML>

TABINDEX can be used with <A>, <INPUT>, <TEXTAREA>, and <BUTTON