Fieldsets and Legends - HTML
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Job SearchSometimes, it is advantageous to visually group certain controls on your form. This is a standard practice for graphical user agents.
The <fieldset> tag is used as a container for form elements and results in a thin border being displayed around the elements it surrounds. For example, the following code results in the output.
Grouping controls allows a user to better understand a form’s organization. This is standard in GUI interfaces, as demonstrated in this Windows Internet Explorer dialog box.
The <legend> tag allows the surrounding <fieldset> box to be captioned. For example, the following code adds a caption to the previous example. The output of this change.
