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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-input-element.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-input-value Comment: <input type=number value=""> should be valid? Posted from: 81.234.240.242 by philip@foolip.org User agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.8.115 Version/11.10
From http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fhtml5.org%2Ftools%2Fweb-apps-tracker : "Error: Bad value for attribute value on element input: The empty string is not a valid floating point number." The offending markup: <input id=from type=number min=1 value="" name=from required> The reason this was output was the template code in trackerlib.py: <input id=from type=number min=1 value="%s" name=from required> Unless there's any harm in allowing value="" here, maybe we should allow it?
Anne found the relevant part of the spec: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/number-state.html#number-state "The value attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a valid floating point number."
This also applies to type=date and several others. I think we should allow the empty string value everywhere.
Agreed. Given that the empty value is a valid value (unless the element is required of course), it seems surprising that the empty attribute value isn't valid.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6118. Check-in comment: Allow controls to be given a missing value explicitly (<input type=number value=''> for instance) http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6117&to=6118
mass-moved component to LC1