[Engine-devel] attn ui devs: why do we use inputs for labels?

[Greg Sheremeta]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:14:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] attn ui devs: why do we use inputs for labels?
> 
> I could be wrong, but there is a chance that using "input type=text"
> allows selecting/copying the text, rather than a plain label, which
> doesn't allow that.

If that's the reason, it must be a quirky browser thing. I can select and copy <label>s in Chrome.

> 
> I am not sure if there are any (additional?) advantages to using
> "input type=text" (the other UI maintainers will probably know
> better).
> 
> > I'd like to pursue correcting this, if possible.
> 
> if there is a more "correct" way that won't result in losing any
> existing functionality, +1.
> 
> ----
> Thanks,
> Einav
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:02:15 AM
> > Subject: [Engine-devel] attn ui devs: why do we use inputs for labels?
> > 
> > Hi fellow UI developers,
> > 
> > Can someone explain why we are using "input type=text" fields to render
> > labels? (see screenshot[1]) This seems like bad practice for a few reasons:
> >  * it's not semantic HTML
> >  * inputs do not have variable sizing like text. They cannot shrink down to
> >  the size of the text, which makes positioning difficult.
> >  * common browser extensions such as LastPass can be confused (see
> >  screenshot[1] -- lastpass sees these labels for the text fields they are,
> >  and attempts to help the user fill them in -- that's what those gray
> >  asterisks are. Very confusing.)
> > 
> > I'd like to pursue correcting this, if possible.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> > 
> > [1] http://i.imgur.com/AweOhJe.png
> > 
> > Greg Sheremeta
> > Red Hat, Inc.
> > Sr. Software Engineer, RHEV
> > Cell: 919-807-1086
> > gshereme at redhat.com
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