Checkbox: ability to specify label field when creating programatically

[scheid]

It would facilitate creating checkboxes if I could optionally specify a label field for a checkbox exactly like I do when I create a dijit.form.Button.

so, instead of having to do this:

chk = dojo.create("input", {id:"cbox", type:"checkbox"}, container);
lbl = dojo.create("label", {innerHTML:"Check me", "for":"cbox"}, container);
new dijit.form.CheckBox({}, chk);

I could just do this:

chk = dojo.create("input", {id:"cbox", type:"checkbox"}, container);
new dijit.form.CheckBox({label:"Check Me"}, chk);

The <label> dom element would be created automatically when instantiated.

[bill]

Yes, this is a common request, I guess mainly coming from swing developers. destroy() would need to remove the label too. And need to decide whether "label" is rich text or plain text.

[cjolif]

This is not just from Swing developpers. Most UI toolkits I know of (Silverlight, Flex, and yes Swing) do have a label on Checkbox. Actually even in Dojo, Checkbox inherits (like in that other toolkits) from ToggleButton?. Just that inheritance scheme shows that label is highly expected...

[bill]

running out of time for 1.7

[Douglas Hays]

The label in ToggleButton? is different than the LABEL tag - probably just poorly named. Patches are welcome. The generated LABEL element would need to be text-direction aware.

[bill]

See also #16017 for BIDI issues.

[dylan]

Given that no one has shown interest in creating a patch in the past 5+ years, I'm closing this as patchwelcome.