HTML - Correct way of coding a checkbox with a Label

Question

I\'ve been using formtastic in order to generate HTML forms on rails applications. My question, however, is really HTML-related.

Today I found a strange behaviour on

Answer 1

Can anyone tell me why enclosing checkboxes inside their tag might be a good idea

It might be a good idea because you could lose the id and for attributes in this case, making the markup simpler. When an is inside a , the connection between them is implicit. (See HTML4 section 17.9.1.)

However, in practice this doesn't work in IE, so you lose that potential advantage.

I can only assume in this case it's for layout/styling reasons.