- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:31:33 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
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) | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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