13323 2011-07-21 20:02:59 +0000 In section 4.10.21 "Constraints" (under "Association of controls and forms"), the definition for "Suffering from being missing" includes the text "... or, in the case of an element in a radio button group, any of the other elements in the group has a requ 2011-08-10 20:45:52 +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 ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 51354 0 contributor 2011-07-21 20:02:59 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: In section 4.10.21 "Constraints" (under "Association of controls and forms"), the definition for "Suffering from being missing" includes the text "... or, in the case of an element in a radio button group, any of the other elements in the group has a required attribute". I think this should also apply to checkbox elements in the same group. In other words, if any of the checkbox elements with a given name have the "required" attribute, then at least one of the checkboxes should be selected (not necessarily the checkbox with the "required" attribute). I can see arguments for the opposite behavior, but the reality is that it is more useful to require at least one checkbox to be checked than to require a specific checkbox (and if you require a specific checkbox then it is usually in its own group by itself, and therefore it would behave as intended). In my opinion, it is counterintuitive to make the checkbox behavior different than the radio button behavior in this case. Posted from: 169.237.132.160 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17 52574 1 mike 2011-08-04 05:02:46 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1 54628 2 ian 2011-08-10 20:45:52 +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: As far as I am aware, nothing links checkboxes together currently — there's no more of a relationship between two type=checkbox inputs with the same name and two type=text inputs with the same name. type=radio are a special case of their own. We could change that for type=checkbox and required="", but I'm skeptical that it's that good an idea. If you really want the user to select one or more from a list, use <select multiple required>.