- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:31:43 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Travis Leithead <Travis.Leithead@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Travis Leithead wrote: > > I've got a customer pointing me to http://www.kloots.net/ie8/bug-01.php, > which demos a supposed IE8 bug. However, I've searched HTML4 and HTML5 > and can't find any normative text that backs up the author's claim that > it's wrong to submit the BUTTON's value if the button is not of > type=submit. > > Is this really a bug? If so, can you conjure up some clarifying text in > section 4.10.5? It's in 4.10.15.2 "Form submission algorithm", step 7 "Constructing the form data set", substep 1, third bullet point. A button isn't included in the form submission unless it was the submitter. I've added a note to 4.10.5 "The button element" to this effect. In HTML4, this is defined in 17.13.2 "Successful controls", second bullet point. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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