- From: TAMURA, Kent <tkent@chromium.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:49:37 +0900
- To: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
Proposal:
I'd like to propose adding new IDL attribute to HTMLInputElement.
readonly attribute DOMString rawValue;
It returns text content which a user actually see in an input field.
* For text, search, url, tel, password types, it's equivalent to 'value'
IDL attribute.
* For email type, it returns a string which a user is editing. It means it
returns a string without Unicode -> Punycode conversion and without
normalization of whitespace and commas.
* For number type, it returns user-editing string. If a user typed '123+++'
into a number field, rawValue would be '123+++' as is.
* For date, datetime, datetime-local, month, time, week, the attribute
returns a string in a field. If a field is text-editable, it should return
user-editing string like email and number. If a field has a fixed
localized date/time string chosen by a date/time picker, the attribute
should return the localized string.
* For submit, reset, button types, the attribute returns a label which the
field shows. e.g. 'Submit' for <input type=submit> without value attribute.
* For other types, should it return an empty string?
Use case:
- We can enable text field selection APIs for email, number, and other types
- JavaScript-based screen readers can read user-visible content of input
fields.
Strings returned by rawValue attribute may be browser-dependent and
locale-dependent. However it would be useful.
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TAMURA Kent
Software Engineer, Google
Received on Friday, 7 September 2012 09:50:30 UTC