Fieldset and Legend

The Fieldset element, in conjunction with Legend, has been developed to help users organize form content, as in the case of a form where contact information is clustered. A combination of these tags and Cascading Style Sheet attributes can produce a table-free data form. Fieldset and Legend are not currently supported by adaptive technology.

Note: Fieldset encloses content between the <TD> and </TD> tags, so it does not work for forms defined by multiple rows and columns.

Fieldset and Legend are used below in concert with I D below. See the Forms page for more detail.

Code Example:

<tr>
<td><fieldset>
<legend>Contact Information
</legend>
      

<p>
<label for="FirstName">First name:</label>
<input type="text" name="fn" id="FirstName"></input></label>
</p>

<p>
<label for="SecondName">Second name:</label>
<input type="text" name="sn" id="SecondName"></input>
</p>

</fieldset></td>
</tr>

Browsers

Internet Explorer supports the use of Fieldset and Legend, enclosing content areas with a thin border (see this site's Comments Form as an example).

Adaptive Technology

Neither Fieldset nor Legend is supported by JAWS, Window-Eyes or Home Page Reader at this point, so their usefullness is limited.