Django form fields render into invalid HTML

[Johannes Maron]

Howdy,

Django 6 introduced unannounced changes to the default form rendering. Forms render with a fieldset, not a label, by default now.

I just noticed that fields render a for-attribute into a legend-tag. This isn't valid HTML5 according to spec: ​https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-legend-element

Furthermore, the use of a fieldset/legend replaces the label-tag. However, input labels are required as of WCAG 2.1.

Since Django must be WCAG2.2 AAA compliant, we might even want to patch all supported versions. However, this would mean shippping a rendering change in a bugfix.

My current impulse would be to drop the for attribute in all supported versions for valid HTML and to enforce labels for WCAG compliance in 6.1

Cheers!
Joe