Devel Variable Editor: Wrap variable names in LABEL tags

I agree, but I'm not sure it's possible, because they are in two separate columns. Have you looked this up on w3c and tried it out on a static HTML page?

In drupal 7 you can do:

#title = foo
#title_display = invisible || attribute (attribute for checkbox / radio only)

if set to invisible it will create <label class="element-invisible" for="id-of-form-element">#title</label><input .... /> The .element-invisible class in D7 hides content from all except for screen-reader users. for attribute it will set the title attribute of the form input field as #title. Both of these work for accessibility.

Ideally the label in the one column would be wrapped in a label element with the for attribute set to the id of the input element, but this is tricky, if not near impossible, in D7 FAPI.

In D6 you can just set #attributes = array('title' => #title,)

This should work.

Maybe #post_render can help?

Oh, and D7/8 needs to go first...

If you point me to the correct, or presumed correct, place in the module I can take a quick peak and give some more feedback. I recall doing something similar with Core a couple of years ago.

I took a look at devel_variable_form() in devel.pages.inc (8.x-1.x).

I then took a look at theme_tableselect(). I definitely recognize where the problem lies and filed #1258278: tableselect documentation in FAPI reference incomplete.

As I comment in the above issue, I will take a look to see how this is addressed in Core, as I know that checkboxs in tableselect forms have a title attribute set.

Subscribing...

Thanks for looking into this!

@mgifford found this function in the other issue. I haven't checked if the #title property is only available in D7+, so take a look at the function for D6 just in case.

From form_process_tableselect():

'@title' => $element['#options'][$key]['title']['data']['#title'],

Devel Variable Editor no longer exists n 8.x branch so moving to 7.x

Here it is in an after_build callback.

This patch worked as intended for me. Screenshot of the HTML attached.

Very nice--thanks, jacob.embree and zorya!