- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:36:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > > http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#formAttribute > > says > > > All form controls as well as the fieldset element may have the form > > attribute specified. The form attribute gives a space- separated list > > of IDs of form elements that the form control is to be associated with > > I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up, but the "form" attribute from > the spec is unimplementable. Form controls already have a "form" > attribute that refers to the form *node* the control is associated with. > Turning that into a list of strings will break a lot of existing content > like > > <select onchange="this.form.submit()"> > > I'd rename the form attribute to formsList . (Name is up for discussion > of course..) The "form attribute" in the text above is a content attribute. WF2 defines the DOM attributes separately. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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