- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:10:17 -0700
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> Furthermore, as I understand the above definitions, the spec does allow >> to specify label and value in one step in a select element: >> >> <select> >> ? <option>This is value and label >> </select> >> >> But not in a datalist, as the label is taken from the textContent rather >> than from the value of the option element: >> >> <datalist> >> ? <option value="No label here"> >> ? <option label="No value here"> >> </datalist> > > The difference is that the value is typically shown in the datalist case. At least <input type=email> seems like a very common example where you'd want to show a label. Here you likely will want to show peoples names, but choosing a name would use the email address as the .value for the <input>. / Jonas
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