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- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:42:55 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12301
Summary: Make empty-named radio buttons not belong to a group
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
ReportedBy: jonas@sicking.cc
QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
public-html@w3.org, mounir.lamouri@gmail.com
In most regards, the <input> element treats an empty name the same as the lack
of a name.
This is true for example during form submission, and weather the element shows
up in the form.elements collection.
However, the one exception appears to be that for radio buttons, <input> with
an empty name attribute belong to the same radio group. However elements with
no name attribute belong to no group.
Firefox 3.6 does what the spec currently prescribes.
Firefox 4 puts empty-named radio buttons in no group. (Disclosure, this change
was made by me, though I don't remember if it was an intentional change or not.
It could have been a side effect of some code cleanup).
Webkit puts empty-named radio buttons in no group.
Don't have Opera or IE at hand to try, but [1] indicates that Opera and IE6
behave like Firefox 3.6 whereas IE9 behave like Firefox 4 and webkit.
If this is true the only recent browser that follows the currently specced
behavior is Opera.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639378
To make name handling more consistent I propose that we treat empty-named radio
buttons like nameless radio buttons and make them not belong to a group.
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