- From: Max Romantschuk <max@romantschuk.fi>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:04:45 +0300
Mike Shaver wrote: > It's also pretty common to enter multiple email addresses or tracking > numbers or URLs one-per-line for batch operations on sites, and they > would benefit from having client-side validation of such patterns. I also believe that it would be beneficial to have an option to regex-validate a text area in cases like this. One might argue that a case like this is served by having an AJAX interface with multiple inputs, but in my experience a lot of real world office work involves "the worlds most used database", the spreadsheet. It's not far fetched to imagine copy-pasting a bunch of data from a spreadsheet column into a textarea, in which case it would make sense to be able to have client side validation for a given pattern repeated n times with newlines in between. I really don't see a case for not allowing pattern for a textarea. The implementation side should not be that different from the same attribute on a text input? Except for the client side overhead of parsing a large amount of data against a regex, what would be the drawbacks on having pattern on textareas? .max -- Max Romantschuk max at romantschuk.fi http://max.romantschuk.fi/
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