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Bug 19850 - should the type and name attribute values be enclosed in quotes?
Summary: should the type and name attribute values be enclosed in quotes?
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-11-04 04:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-11-05 20:12 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-11-04 04:17:17 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#writing-a-form's-user-interface
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#writing-a-form's-user-interface

Comment:
should the type and name attribute values be enclosed in quotes?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-11-05 20:12:01 UTC 
There is no particular significance to the way some of the attributes have their values quoted and others don't. The HTML syntax allows a variety of equally valid ways to specify attributes, as discussed in the syntax section.