Label Tags and Fitts’ Law

A quick way to improve the usability of your forms is to use the label tag. It will increase the size of the click-able area of a form input. As we know from Fitts’ law the larger an element the easier it is to interact with it. Try it with a check box. The clickable area is outlined in red.


a check box without label

<label>
    <input type="checkbox"> label text
</label>

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