Can you style an active form input's label with just CSS

Question

Given the following html

label

         


        

Answer 1

This can be done if you target browsers that support flexbox - see this: http://plnkr.co/edit/g376cf38iphfvGfSubOz?p=preview

For brevity, the css there is minimal but you'll need some browser specific prefixes to extend support to somewhat older browsers.