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Bug 12905 - For the attribute "required" of checkbox element, I think it should be defined as "at least one is required" but not "which fields are required". So it's better use the same constraint validation with the radio element. That is if an element in the check
Summary: For the attribute "required" of checkbox element, I think it should be defin...
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: 2011-06-08 05:30 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-17 04:23 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-06-08 05:30:18 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top

Comment:
For the attribute "required" of checkbox element,  I think it should be
defined as "at least one is required" but not "which fields are required". So
it's better use the same constraint validation with the radio element. That is
if an element in the checkbox group is required, and all of the input elements
in the checkbox group have a checkedness that is false, then the element is
suffering from being missing.

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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:34:34 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-17 04:23:40 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: If you want a set of items from which the user is to select one or more, you want <select multiple required>. Check boxes (and indeed all <input> types other than radio buttons) are independent from each other regardless of whether they have common names.