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That's only true if you let your labels be as wide as the parent container.

> on mobile it might lead to miss-clicks while trying to scroll past the <label>s

You can scroll on mobile by swiping over the text of a label itself without activating the input; this isn't generally a concern.

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Well with the CSS in the post they would end up as wide as their parent. If you made it an inline flex box then yes, that wouldn’t be an issue.

> You can scroll on mobile by swiping over the text of a label itself without activating the input; this isn't generally a concern.

Generally speaking yes, but there’s still a chance of triggering it by touching the whitespace by mistake. Whereas if it wasn’t the full width it just wouldn’t be possible to begin with.

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