Yes, I am home on a Saturday writing web development HOWTOs, so what?

The text doesn't seem all too clickable in Safari.

The markup seems fine:

[form]
[input type="checkbox" value="1" name="somethin" id="somethin"]
[label for="somethin"]Check Me Out[/label]
[/form]

but it's not clickable in safari 2.0

Yup, doesn't work in Safari 2.0, on this page, nor syndicated through Bloglines.

Until Safari supports <label> clickability, there's a Javascript solution that works pretty well.

hey, cool! (firefox works fine)

Works in Firefox, doesn't work in NetNewsWire. (But honestly, how big of a deal is that?)

Symantically delicious!

I really wish Safari would support label.

Changing the cursor to a hand provides a nice reference point for the end-user to know that the label is indeed clickable.

k.

Been around for at least five years (sticks in my mind because I remember Jason Kottke pointing it out: http://www.kottke.org/00/09/one-of-the-reasons-i or http://tinyurl.com/8qwkk), but I suspect tweaks like this mainly get used on personal sites as the novelty of churning out page after corporate page wears off. Or I'm just jaded and speaking for myself ;)

wetwebwork: yeah, that's where i first saw it too.

i just posted this while drinking on a saturday night and trying to use some web app that hadn't included them. lots of hit/miss clicking going on.

i hope more people who do corporate sites use this technique, though.