Whats the purpose of label for=''...''?

HTML-CSS
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<h2>CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
<p>Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

<a href="#"><img src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>

<p>Things cats love:</p>
<ul>
  <li>cat nip</li>
  <li>laser pointers</li>
  <li>lasagna</li>
</ul>
<p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
<ol>
  <li>flea treatment</li>
  <li>thunder</li>
  <li>other cats</li>
</ol>
<form action="https://freecatphotoapp.com/submit-cat-photo">
  <label for="indoor"><input id="indoor" type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Indoor</label>
  <label for="outdoor"><input id="outdoor" type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
  <label for="loving"><input id="loving" type="checkbox" name="personality"> Loving</label>
  <label for="lazy"><input id="lazy" type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
  <label for="energetic"><input id="energetic" type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>
  <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
</main>

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36 Edg/87.0.664.60.

Challenge: Use the value attribute with Radio Buttons and Checkboxes

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isnt it just the same as the normal or does it provide another use ?

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If you’ve come that far, supposedly you already have solved this lesson: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsive-web-design/basic-html-and-html5/create-a-set-of-radio-buttons

Where they explain:

It is considered best practice to set a for attribute on the label element, with a value that matches the value of the id attribute of the input element. This allows assistive technologies to create a linked relationship between the label and the child input element.

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the for attribute links a label to an input, so you can click on the label and the input is selected

it’s also important for accessibility, above all if you don’t nest the input in the label

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