[whatwg] Should a textarea outside of a document be immutable?

• From: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
• Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:55:52 +0200
• To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
• Message-ID: <4FB17F68.7020105@lamouri.fr>

Hi,

According to the HTML specifications, a textarea is mutable "if it is
neither disabled nor has a readonly attribute specified". Which means
that a textarea outside of a document is mutable. This is not the case
for an input element.
I was wondering why there is this difference in behavior here between
those two elements. I believe both elements should be immutable when
outside of a document.

Cheers,
--
Mounir

Received on Monday, 14 May 2012 21:56:31 UTC