- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:23:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Alex Vincent wrote: > > "The field has the required attribute set but has no value selected." > > In implementing this for Mozilla, I realized an edge case that could > prove troublesome. Specifically, what happens if you have multiple > radio or checkboxes with the required attribute and no boxes checked > for any of them. > > Alternatively, consider when the radio button is checked but doesn't > have a value... and some other radio input with the same name in the > same form does have a value. > > There's an attempt to clarify it here: > > "When a radio group has no checked radio button and more than one of > the radio buttons is marked as required, the UA should only tell the > user that the radio group as a whole is missing a value, not complain > about each radio button in turn, even though all of the radio buttons > marked with the required attribute would have the valueMissing flag > set." > > Tell the user how? Visually? Through DOM events? Both, or some > other way? I'm working from the DOM events view right now, and this > could be the difference between dispatching one event and dispatching > many. Clarified. Let me know if that doesn't help. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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