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<legend>: The Field Set Legend element

The <legend> HTML element represents a caption for the content of its parent {{HTMLElement("fieldset")}}.

{{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/tabbed/legend.html", "tabbed-standard")}}

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Examples

See {{HTMLElement("form")}} for examples on <legend>.

Technical summary

Content categories None.
Permitted content Phrasing content and headings (h1–h6 elements).
Tag omission None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
Permitted parents A {{HTMLElement("fieldset")}} whose first child is this <legend> element
Implicit ARIA role No corresponding role
Permitted ARIA roles No role permitted
DOM interface {{domxref("HTMLLegendElement")}}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also