- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:03:50 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 3/14/12 10:24 PM, Sharon Newman (COHEN) wrote: > With the following code: > <input list=”test” type=text> > <datalist id=test> > <option value=”a”> > <option value = “b”> > <option value=”c”> > </datalist> > > According to the spec, these options don’t have a label, however, in FF > and Opera today the value is being displayed as the label. "Displayed as the label" in which sense? If you're looking at the actual behavior when typing in the input, the relevant spec section is http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html#attr-input-list which says: The user agent may use the suggestion's label to identify the suggestion if appropriate. There's nothing past that in the spec that really talks about how the suggestions should be exposed to the user, as far as I can see. Specifically, nothing requires the UA to actually present to suggestions, and nothing requires the UA to use the suggestion labels to identify the suggestions. Unless I'm missing something, of course. -Boris
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