Trouble with Techdegree

Hello everyone!

I've clarified this with Martins in our slack channels for the Techdegree already, but I just want to make sure there's an answer provided here.

I looked into this project review, but the most recent reviewer was correct. In the instructions and the Meets Expectations text for this project, it states:

Make sure you properly pair each <label> element with its corresponding form control via the for attribute. See the link above for an example.

and in the needs work grade guidelines for the project, it specifies:

Labels are not properly associated with its form field.

I do understand that the example in the video demonstrates a label element being used in another way. From time to time, practices change, evolve, and improve, and at Treehouse we're constantly working to update content as it grows older.

The HTML spec doesn't spell out that labels should not be used for anything other than pairing with one input. But it also doesn't say that a div shouldn't be used as a body tag in the div spec. To do so would make the docs prohibitively long. It's just not what it's for. Using elements for their intended purpose only is a best practice, thus why we've tried to make sure you don't by making this an "needs work" qualification on the project. Because we want to see you use it properly. If the video is a little misleading, I'll look into having a teacher's note added to the video for the time being.

I'm sorry the first reviewer seemed to not specify this. A grade is never lowered due to something found after the rubric has passed, as a hard-fast rule. However, in this case, the rubric wasn't passed in the first review, so the reviewer wasn't wrong in not passing it a second time. Be sure to see if someone can check your project before turning it in to do your best to minimize errors, and be sure to check all the criteria for passing before each submission. It saves a lot of time, and I am sympathetic to these concerns.

Nicolas