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Bug 12499 - I think it would be better if required attribute wasnt boolean type. This attribute should set text, which is showed when textfield is required.
Summary: I think it would be better if required attribute wasnt boolean type. This att...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-04-15 10:55 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:12 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-04-15 10:55:34 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-required-attribute

Comment:
I think it would be better if required attribute wasnt boolean type. This
attribute should set text, which is showed when textfield is required.

Posted from: 193.93.75.6
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Comment 1 brunoais 2011-04-23 14:23:18 UTC 
I disagree.
The required attribute should state if the tag is required or not to be filled.
What could be done is to add another attribute to the tag that allows that to be fulfilled
Comment 2 Anne 2011-06-22 22:17:09 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The UI for form controls (including language) is up to the user agent and potentially XBL. Not for HTML.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:12:34 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1