- From: Ben Meadowcroft <ben@benmeadowcroft.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:13:19 +0100
Hi, I would like to propose a combined input control. Before I explain what I mean by this in too great a detail I'll provide a couple of use cases where it may prove useful: 1. Entering a long number (such as a credit card number) 2. Entering a date The combined control would essentially be a grouping of "normal" form controls but logically coupled together and submitting one value when the form is posted. An example of the mark-up could be: <inputgroup name="somedate" submissionFormat="[somedate_year]-[somedate_month]-[somedate_day]"> <input type="text" name="somedate_day" maxlength="2" size="2" pattern="..."> <select name="somedate_month"><option value="01">January</option>...</select> <input name="somedate_year" type="text" maxlength="4" size="4" pattern="..."> </inputgroup> Or <inputgroup name="somecard"> <input name="somecard_part1" type="text" maxlength="4" size="4" pattern="..."> <input name="somecard_part2" type="text" maxlength="4" size="4" pattern="..."> <input name="somecard_part3" type="text" maxlength="4" size="4" pattern="..."> <input name="somecard_part4" type="text" maxlength="4" size="4" pattern="..."> <input name="somecard_part5" type="text" maxlength="4" size="4" pattern="..."> </inputgroup> User agents that understand the web forms mark-up would submit the values as one combined value (a simple concatenation of the values perhaps). This submission could be customised to submit the constituent form control values in a author defined format (the example above is just illustrative). This control would be useful for entering long numbers such as credit card info or serial numbers, input focus could automatically pass to the next box in the group to speed up data entry. This would also make it easier for the user to visually chunk long values such as a credit card number to verify it before submission than entering the data into one single text input. There would also be convenient hooks for CSS rules as well... Any comments? -- Ben Meadowcroft http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3034 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20040723/39649782/attachment.bin>
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