15703 2012-01-25 03:13:12 +0000 ":required" pseudo selector for a radio button group 2014-05-28 17:50:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified All All CLOSED FIXED a11y, a11ytf P2 normal --- 16061 1 tkent robin cooper lwatson mike mtanalin public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin w3bugs public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 63091 0 tkent 2012-01-25 03:13:12 +0000 http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#selector-required > :required > The :required pseudo-class must match any element falling into one of the following categories: > - input elements that are required According to this definition, radio1 in the following example is not matched to ":required" though radio1 is invalid. I think it's inconsistent and we had better add an exceptional rule for radio button groups. <form> <input type=radio name=group1 id=radio1> <input type=radio name=group1 required> </form> 63097 1 mtanalin 2012-01-25 11:27:41 +0000 By the way, radio buttons is a case where having @required attribute for fieldset would be handy: <fieldset required> <input type="radio" name="group1" id="radio1" /> <input type="radio" name="group1" /> </fieldset> So we could use FIELDSET:required instead of INPUT:required. 70107 2 contributor 2012-07-18 06:54:43 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 17818 as part of operation convergence. 76890 3 mike 2012-10-22 07:30:10 +0000 Hixie moved upstream bug 17818 for this to resolved=wontfix with this comment: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17818#c1 "This would require "spooky action at a distance" in selectors. I think if you want :required to match, it's reasonable to require you to set the attribute also." I'd suggest doing the same for this bug. 81484 4 cooper 2013-01-16 14:50:21 +0000 Note this appears to be addressing the same use case as 16061, so adding dependency. Not expressing an opinion between them but they should be resolved together. 106927 5 lwatson 2014-05-28 17:50:00 +0000 Closed by Bug Triage, per resolution for bug 16061: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16061