Re: select control element requires option element

At Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:40:01AM +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
> 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

Not to mention, HTML-style forms are going out of fashion in the next XHTML anyway. :-)

TX

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