Effective use of labels

- Before we look at why we might not want to use labels,…let's emphasize what they are,…what value they add, and how they work.…Now, here's a form, and as you see,…I've got a little excess verbiage.…Let's take a look at this in a browser…and I'll show you what I mean.…Little excess verbiage…between asking a client for their email address…and the actual input where they enter the email address;…however, if I click on the email label,…did you notice that the email input became focused,…or active?…So labels connect, and in a more classic example,…if I just tap on the phone label,…that input becomes active.…

This is valuable, especially for people…who are using a keyboard and a mouse.…It's also valuable for people…who have various kinds of disabilities.…It makes it easier for them to select an input…and fill out a form.…Let's go back to Dreamweaver and refresh…and remind ourselves of how the syntax works.…We have label for email…and that connects to the email input…through matching IDs.…

So the label for=email…and then if you look down at line 20 in the code,…