12905 2011-06-08 05:30:18 +0000 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 2011-08-17 04:23:40 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian brunoaiss ian jonas mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 49302 0 contributor 2011-06-08 05:30:18 +0000 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. Posted from: 58.240.74.210 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.127 Safari/534.16 53929 1 mike 2011-08-04 05:34:34 +0000 mass-move component to LC1 55272 2 ian 2011-08-17 04:23:40 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html 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.