[Bug 16936] New: maxlength should probably be complicated with minlength. Seeing maxlength applied to passwords made me think of this, and the added security of a minimum length could be promoted in the documentation.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16936

           Summary: maxlength should probably be complicated with
                    minlength. Seeing maxlength applied to passwords made
                    me think of this, and the added security of a minimum
                    length could be promoted in the documentation.
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#att
                    r-input-type-keywords
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org


Specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-input-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#attr-input-type-keywords
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#attr-input-type-keywords

Comment:
maxlength should probably be complicated with minlength. Seeing maxlength
applied to passwords made me think of this, and the added security of a
minimum length could be promoted in the documentation.

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Received on Friday, 4 May 2012 18:10:32 UTC