What is the meaning of the 'aria-describedby' property?

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Rinkal Bhanderi picture Rinkal Bhanderi · Jan 3, 2011 · Viewed 42.3k times · Source

The following HTML is inserted by the jQuery Grid plugin:

<td role="gridcell" style="" aria-describedby="list_createdBy">Sam</td>

What is the meaning of the 'aria-describedby' property?

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Quentin picture Quentin · Jan 3, 2011

This is described in the aria specification. It gives the id of an element that provides some additional information about the current element that some users might need.

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