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Sometimes, certain form controls belong together in a logical grouping. Form controls can be grouped together using fieldsets and then labeled using a legend.
HTML Elements
- The
fieldset-element wraps multiple form elements into common groups. This can help organize a form and make it easier to understand for users. - The
legend-element is similar to the label element, but instead of labeling a form control, it labels a fieldset. Adding a legend to a fieldset can provide some helpful context for users that are filling out a form.
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Labels help to organize forms a lot.
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But, we can do better.
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Sometimes, certain form controls belong
together in a logical grouping.
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For example, if our sign up form included
a physical mailing address, we
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would want to make sure all of that data
was visually grouped together.
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In our case, we want to make two groups.
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One for basic information, and one for the
information that will show
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up on a user's profile, after they've
logged into our imaginary app.
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We can do that by wrapping our form
controls in the field set element.
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So let's try that out.
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Just after the h1, I'm going to type
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a fieldset, element, and it will
automatically close.
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But I don't want it to close right there.
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I actually want to wrap, all of these form
elements in a fieldset.
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So I'm going to highlight all of those and
indent them.
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And then I want to add a second fieldset.
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And I'll move the closing tag,
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[BLANK_AUDIO]
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Just after our text area.
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And I'll indent that as well.
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We'll leave the button outside of any kind
of fieldsets.
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But all of our other form controls will be
inside one of these two fieldsets.
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So, let's save that out.
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Switch back to the preview, and refresh.
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And as you can see there's now some slight
spacing, and some padding
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and margin adjustments that have been
made,
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based on our fieldsets that we added.
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These two fieldsets created logical
groupings, but
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it would be nice to label them.
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We can do this using the legend element.
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So, let's try that out.
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I'm going to switch over to my work space
here.
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And, just after my fieldset, but just
before the
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first label element, I'm going to type the
legend tag.
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And inside of that, I'm going to say Your
basic info.
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Now, I also want to number each one of
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these sections as if they were steps in a
process.
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So, I'm going to add a span element, just
like that.
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And I'm going to give it the class,
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number, because inside of our CSS, there
is a number class
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that will style whatever is inside of this
span very nicely.
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So I'm going to say this is step 1.
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And then I'll have a space just after my
span.
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And then I'll say, Your basic info.
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And all of that, should go inside of this
legend.
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So, let's copy this line, and let's add it
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to our other field set, and then adjust
what's inside.
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So, this will be step 2.
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And we'll say, Your profile.
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[SOUND] So, let's save that out.
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Switch back to the browser, and refresh
the page.
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And as you can see, we now have these nice
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legends that are labeling each one of our
field sets.
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So we have, Your basic info, and then,
Your profile.
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So, that's great.
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Our form looks a lot more organized now
and we're ready to add more controls.
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When we add form controls from now on,
we'll make sure to label them as we go.
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