About Posh CSS
Posh CSS is a collection of Cascading Style Sheet Articles, Tutorials, Tips and Code snippets for the modern day web designer.
Browse the site
Submit a link
Have you written or read a great resource relating to CSS that we are not linking to yet? Let us know.
Browse our Archives
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
Get in touch
Have a question or just want to drop us a line? Contact Us →
Posh CSS
Prettier Accessible Forms from A List Apart
It can be time consuming to make web forms both pretty and accessible. In particular, laying out forms where the form label and input are horizontally adjacent, can be a real problem. We used to use tables, which worked well in this scenario—but forms don’t constitute tabular data, so it’s a semantic faux pas. I wanted to create something that anyone could easily reuse on any project: a style sheet that, when applied to a correctly marked up HTML form, would produce the basis of the required layout. So here it is—my attempt at portable, accessible forms.
Comments
No comments yet, add yours below.
Commenting has closed for this article.

