Name

legend — HTML 4.01 | HTML5

Synopsis

<legend> . . . </legend>

Assigns a caption to a fieldset (it must be the first child of a fieldset element). This improves accessibility when the fieldset is rendered nonvisually.

Start/End Tags

Required/Required

Attributes

Core, Internationalization, Events, HTML5 Global Attributes

accesskey="character"

Assigns an access key (keyboard shortcut) to an element for quicker access.

align="top|bottom|left|right"

Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Aligns the text relative to the fieldset.

Example

<fieldset>
  <legend>Mailing List Sign-up</legend>
  <ul>
  <li><label>Add me to your mailing list
           <input type="radio" name"list"></label></li>
  <li><label>No thanks <input name"list" value="no">
        </label></li>
   </ul>
</fieldset>

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