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Bug 10053 - how about minlength? i'd like to see certain fields to have a minimum amoung of characters for validation
Summary: how about minlength? i'd like to see certain fields to have a minimum amoung ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 enhancement
Target Milestone: 2013 Q4
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_b...
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Keywords:
: 10308 11870 16936 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-06-30 02:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-04-20 05:01 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-06-30 02:41:03 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-maxlength-attribute

Comment:
how about minlength? i'd like to see certain fields to have a minimum amoung
of characters for validation

Posted from: 209.99.13.239
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-28 04:48:30 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Maybe one day. Let's let the browsers catch up first.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-10 09:39:49 UTC 
*** Bug 10308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Mounir Lamouri 2011-01-26 20:56:51 UTC 
*** Bug 11870 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Aryeh Gregor 2011-01-27 01:02:51 UTC 
Note that minlength="n" is equivalent to pattern=".{n}".  Not clear if it's common enough to really need special handling.
Comment 5 Mounir Lamouri 2011-01-27 15:25:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Note that minlength="n" is equivalent to pattern=".{n}".  Not clear if it's
> common enough to really need special handling.

No, minlength="n" isn't equivalent too pattern=".{n}". @pattern should only be used for specific cases given that it removes all semantic.

In addition of passwords fields that require a minimum length (I guess that would be the primary use case), minlength could be used for field that require a specific length in association with maxlength (with maxlength and minlength having the same value).
Comment 6 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-19 23:05:35 UTC 
*** Bug 16936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 public-rdfa-wg 2013-01-24 06:51:55 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create HTML WG bug 19047.
Comment 8 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-05-29 23:53:14 UTC 
Bug 15291 suggests there's a lot of demand for this, relatively speaking.
Comment 9 contributor 2013-10-03 18:22:12 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8206.
Check-in comment: Add minlength='', since data shows people are using pattern='' to work around the absence of this feature.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8205&to=8206