Browser Support & 508 

 

In Netscape 4.7 the border will be displayed in 3D; the background color is always white; disabled looks like enabled.

 

Editability in Style Editor

In the Style Editor, it is possible to modify the following attributes of the text edit control:

Group	Style	IE5 and above	Netscape 4.7
Text Eit Styles	Padding	x
Container	Container Border	x

Table 1: Editable styles for the text edit control

 

Accessibility - 508 Support

Text edit controls have to be used in combination with the label element which points to the assigned text edit control. This ensures, that screenreaders are aware of the relationship between the both elements and can read the correct label to the according text edit control.

·        Keyboard

Text edit controls are inserted into the accessibility hierarchy by default.

·        Default Description

Is provided by the HTMLB rendering engine.

·        Application-specific Description

Set an additional description using the setTooltip method if needed.

·        Label

Has to be connected to a label control (use method setLabelFor for identifying the corresponding text edit control).