- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:30:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: >> Just include the repetition blocks with the values prefilled. There is >> nothing special that happens if the repetition block is different than the >> template. > > I think that "nothing special" is still something special, in a way - to > the point that it took me some thought to figure out what you might mean > by "nothing special" in this context. > > Presumably you mean that the repetition block is rendered exactly as > sent and the content of the template is completely ignored. I mean that the repetition block is just a <div>, or <tr>, or whatever, and for the purposes of submission the whole repetition model is largely ignored. > I wonder if there might be value in having a way to specify that a > repetition block should be instantiated explicitly, with particular > field values, without having to produce the whole repetition block > (including, potentially, a whole bunch of content that's fixed) several > times over. There is: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#seeding But if you want it to work in legacy UAs, you're going to have to copy the text twice, indeed (once to fill it in, once for the template). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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