- From: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:56:28 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:32 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Adrian Bateman wrote: > > > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-fieldset-element > > > > In the description for the <fieldset> disabled attribute, the spec > says: > > > > "The disabled attribute, when specified, causes all the form control > > descendants of the fieldset element, excluding those that are > > descendants of the fieldset element's first legend element child, if > > any, to be disabled." > > > > Is there a reason why the disabled attribute shouldn't also disable > > controls that are descendants of the first legend element? > > Generally speaking, the main use case for this is a checkbox in the > legend used to enable or disable the entire fieldset. > > For example: > > +-- [ ] Shipping address is different from billing address --------+ > | | > | (form fields for shipping address) | > | | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thanks Ian (and Philip who suggested the same use case). I think it would be good to include this as an informative example in the spec. We've filed a bug on this behaviour for IE but given the lack of interop on this feature across browsers it might not be a high priority for us. Cheers, Adrian.
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