The <fieldset> and <legend> tags are a great way to group relatedinformation in a form. These tags provide an easy means to group items visually,and are understood by screen readers and text-only devices, which can perceive that the tagged items are logically grouped together. This wouldn’t be the case if you simply wrapped the related items in a styled div users of a standard browser would understand the relationship, but those who couldn’t see the results of our CSS would
not.To group form fields, simply wrap the related fields with a tag and, immediately after your opening tag, add a tag that contains a title for the group:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
h1 {
font: 1.2em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
input.txt {
color: #00008B;
background-color: #E3F2F7;
border: 1px inset #00008B;
width: 200px;
}
input.btn {
color: #00008B;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
border: 1px outset #00008B;
}
form div {
clear: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-top: 5px;
}
form div label {
float: left;
width: 40%;
font: bold 0.9em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
fieldset {
border: 1px dotted #61B5CF;
margin-top: 1.4em;
padding: 0.6em;
}
legend {
font: bold 0.8em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #00008B;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="#">
<fieldset>
<legend>Personal Information</legend>
<div>
<label for="fullname"> Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="fullname" id="fullname" class="txt" /> </div>
<div>
<label for="email"> Email Address:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="txt" /> </div>
<div>
<label for="password1"> Password:</label>
<input type="password" name="password1" id="password1" class="txt" /> </div>
<div>
<label for="password2"> Confirm Password:</label>
<input type="password" name="password2" id="password2" class="txt" /> </div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Address Details</legend>
<div>
<label for="address1"> Address line one:</label>
<input type="text" name="address1" id="address1" class="txt" /> </div>
<div>
<label for="address2"> Address line two:</label>
<input type="text" name="address2" id="address2" class="txt" /> </div>
<div>
<label for="city"> Town / City:</label>
<input type="text" name="city" id="city" class="txt" /> </div>
<div>
<label for="zip"> Zip / Post code:</label>
<input type="text" name="zip" id="zip" class="txt" /> </div>
</fieldset>
<div>
<input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" id="btnSubmit" value="Sign Up!" class="btn" /> </div>
</form>
</body>
</html>