9280 2010-03-19 12:10:18 +0000 forms: Add default button option/attribute for forms 2017-07-21 10:32:52 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified PC All RESOLVED WONTFIX https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19046 a11y P3 enhancement Needs Impl Interest 1 jon.avila ian annevk bugs contributor cooper ian laura.lee.carlson mike paulkinlan public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin slave.loren contributor oldest_to_newest 33711 0 jon.avila 2010-03-19 12:10:18 +0000 Please consider adding a default button option/attribute for forms. I believe this would simplify a lot of form interaction for users of assistive technology and users who rely off of the keyboard alone. Currently different browsers handle this differently and there is no specific method for assigning which button will be activated when enter is pressed in a form field other than a button that works across browsers. 34347 1 ian 2010-04-01 22:24:03 +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: The spec defines how default buttons are to be selected: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#default-button I agree that we should probably make it possible to explicitly pick a button as the default. However, we've already added quite a lot to the forms part of the spec and not all of it has been widely implemented yet, so I'd rather we wait some more before adding such a feature. 38332 2 cooper 2010-08-31 14:06:11 +0000 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Aug/0124.html The bug triage sub-team believes the HTML A11Y TF should take up this bug. Additional notes may follow in a separate comment. 38396 3 cooper 2010-09-02 13:15:05 +0000 Bug triage sub-team says declarable default submit button would be a good a11y enhancement. 54965 4 annevk 2011-08-14 09:59:35 +0000 *** Bug 13320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 82038 5 public-rdfa-wg 2013-01-24 06:53:12 +0000 This bug was cloned to create HTML WG bug 19046. 84582 6 ian 2013-03-18 22:36:59 +0000 Are any browsers interested in implementing a "this is the default submission button" attribute for web forms, or is the current model ("first") sufficient for most purposes? 123226 7 annevk 2015-09-16 11:40:13 +0000 Olli, Paul, any interest in this or knowing who we should ask? 123230 8 bugs 2015-09-16 18:00:53 +0000 I don't have strong opinions on this. "first" kind of makes sense to me, so I'd like to understand why we'd need this complication. 123239 9 annevk 2015-09-17 09:19:20 +0000 Olli, I think the reason is that it's still left up to the underlying platform which button is the default. "First" is just strongly suggested. 128741 10 annevk 2017-07-21 10:32:52 +0000 Please file a new issue at https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/new if there's still interest.