[Bug 11794] We should handle the case of a bunch of required controls all being hidden at once — the author shouldn't have to also go in an remove the 'required' attribute on each one. Maybe make hidden="" bar things from constraint validation?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11794

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |LATER

--- Comment #10 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-02-16 08:15:26 UTC ---
The use case in question is something like a list where each list item can be
toggled between representing either nothing or a set of further fields nested
within it. You want each nested field to be disabled when the parent list item
is in the "off" state, and enabled otherwise, and you don't want to have to
crawl the tree manually each time.

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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: none yet
Rationale: I'm going to postpone this for now, since there are temporary (if
awkward) workarounds in the use of <fieldset> or in the use of utility
functions that crawl the tree marking elements as disabled, and since the use
case isn't a huge use case, and since the proposed solutions have real problems
and I don't have a better proposal at the moment.

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Received on Wednesday, 16 February 2011 08:15:28 UTC