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Using the fieldset and legend tags

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Using the fieldset and legend tags

Organization is just as important in a form, as it is to the rest of your site, maybe even more so. Especially in longer forms you may have several areas of content that would be better organized if there were some way to divide them into separate sections. Well, the Fieldset and Legend Tags allow us to do just that. The Field to element is used to create the separate regions in your form, while the Legend Tag is used to identify them. Both assist with the accessibility and the organization of your form elements. For our form, we're going to have two Fieldset regions, one for Personal Info, and another for Areas of study. Before you begin placing individual form elements on the page, we'll go ahead and create our Fieldsets first. Now again, I am going to do this in a request.html file and this one is opened from the 10_05/admissions directory and I am just going to click inside the form tag that we created in our last movie. So you just want to make sure your cursor is blinking inside…

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