- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 00:40:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: John Russell <ve3ll@rac.ca>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, gerald@w3.org
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, John Russell wrote: > > It is clearly stated in html4.01 rec that at least one > option element is required in a select element... > > However these days option elements can be added dynamically > thru scripts. What if one wanted to create a blank list whose > elements were to be added later as in my example at > > http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll/jstutor4.htm#dy > > This page will not verify using the current spec. Should your > recommendations limit the use of dynamic scripting ??? Note that the Web Forms 2.0 proposal addresses this by allowing empty <select> elements: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#changes -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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