28139 2015-03-04 21:05:52 +0000 Not necessarily a bug, but a clarification would be nice: Does "may have any string value" mean that [...] 2016-03-25 12:46:31 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED MOVED https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attribute-text P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk ian mike w3 contributor oldest_to_newest 118309 0 contributor 2015-03-04 21:05:52 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#attribute-text Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attribute-text Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ Comment: Not necessarily a bug, but a clarification would be nice: Does "may have any string value" mean that attributes can also have values that are not strings? (note: I'm not talking about https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html#common-microsyntaxe s which, as I understand, are just descriptions of the format of (attribute) values). Or does it rather mean that the value is always a string and it may be any value? Posted from: 199.201.64.134 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/600.3.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.3 Safari/600.3.18 119090 1 ian 2015-03-30 22:26:31 +0000 It means the latter. 123027 2 annevk 2015-09-02 09:38:20 +0000 How would you suggest we word this instead? 125625 3 annevk 2016-03-25 12:46:31 +0000 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/940