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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Missing 'for' attribute in labels in Liferay Forms

Written By

Sivakumar Perumal

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Issue

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Login as admin
  2. Go to Content & Data → Forms and create a form
  3. Add a text and a date_picker field
  4. Go to the forms page and use WAVE or another accessibility checker to see the missing form labels.

Actual result: The created label of input fields is missing the 'for' attribute what causes the error in the WCAG test.
Expected result: The created fields are passing the validation

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.2, 7.3

Resolution

  • The observed behavior is a known issue LPS-131983 and will be fixed in dxp-14-7210 for DXP 7.2 and dxp-2-7310 for DXP 7.3.

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