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Label Activation

MUST

MUST: Clicking a <label> focuses the associated control

Clicking a label should focus its associated input

Bad

Good

Why it matters

When labels are properly associated with their inputs, clicking the label text focuses the input. This increases the clickable area and improves usability, especially for checkboxes and radio buttons which have small hit targets.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.