HTML Legend tag

Example

Group related elements in a form:

<form>   <fieldset>     <legend>Personalia:</legend>     Name: <input type="text" size="30" /><br />     Email: <input type="text" size="30" /><br />     Date of birth: <input type="text" size="10" />   </fieldset> </form>

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Definition and Usage

The <legend> tag defines a caption for the fieldset element.

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Browser Support

The <legend> tag is supported in all major browsers.

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Differences Between HTML and XHTML

The align attribute was deprecated in HTML 4.01, and is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.

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Optional Attributes

DTD indicates in which DTD the attribute is allowed. S=Strict, T=Transitional, and F=Frameset.

Attribute	Value	Description	DTD
align	top bottom left right	Deprecated. Use styles instead. Specifies the alignment of the caption in a fieldset	TF

Standard Attributes

id, class, title, style, dir, lang, xml:lang, accesskey

Event Attributes

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup