In IE (v6.0), the <label> tags make absolutely no difference. However, I assume you tested your assertion in some browser so that they would provide benefit to others.

Long ago I proposed removing the "butterfly ballot" aspect of the buttons by putting the "++" and "--" labels between the buttons (which also pushes the buttons farther apart which addresses other people's concerns).

Looking critically at the current display, I find the characters are too small and too low (especially the dashes^Wminus signs) compared to the radio buttons so I'd drop the <font size="1"> and add <tt> which gives you buttons that look a bit like:

¤ ++   -- ¤     ¤ +=0

instead of the current

¤ ++ ¤ -- ¤ +=0

(Using the "currency" symbol, ¤, in place of the radio button that I can't display here.)

But I know some will find my solution strange looking so perhaps the best consesus we can expect would be to use <label>, a better font, and a bit of spacing so they look about like:

¤ ++     ¤ --     ¤ +=0

I also looked at separators (they just cluttered things up since the labels aren't words) or even

( ¤ ++ )     ( ¤ -- )     ( ¤ +=0 )

but that is probably overkill. (:

Or also do as requested:

¤ ++     ¤ +=0     ¤ --

at the top of the thread, which leaves them numerically sorted, which I like.

                - tye

In reply to Re^2: Rearrange voting radio buttons (<label>) by tye
in thread Rearrange voting radio buttons by FoxtrotUniform

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