- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:02:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 24 May 2005, [UTF-8] Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > > I think there is a slight inconsistency with submit buttons. > Section 2.17.: > "Normally, activating a submit button ... must submit the first form the > control is associated with" > Section 2.3 > "If the platform supports submitting a form implicitly ... then when doing so > the first submit button, this default button, must be the one used to initiate > form submission (and it will therefore be successful)." > > The problem is that the the default button for a form might not submit the > same form when activatated, if the form is not the first form in the forms > collection of the button. It is true that strange behaviour could occur, but it is well-defined and predictable. I've edited the spec a bit to make it clearer and added a note about it. > It could be solved by requiring that submit buttons (and input > type=image) may only be associated with a single form at a time. This wouldn't solve it, you would still have the odd case in the error handling. It would just be an additional requirement on conformance checkers without really changing anything, IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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