Using the <legend> tag for input.

Question

So I've got a form, who's content will change based on a dropdown list of different reports. So the question is, how horrible would it be to include a select box as the legend tag for the fieldset?

I know that technically it works, and semantically it makes sense (the actual text of the legend tag, the selected value is a caption of the contents of the fieldset). But I can't help but feel dirty doing it.

Answer 1

If it's semantically correct and the page HMTL validates then I don't see why not.

However, I'm sure there are other UI solutions to your problem. Perhaps using jQuery UI's tabs or something similar. http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs/