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Bug 13754 - as an author, I would have expected that a radio button with value="" checked would be suffering from being missing when the form is submitted
Summary: as an author, I would have expected that a radio button with value="" checked...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-10 23:31 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-20 23:38 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-10 23:31:25 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/number-state.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#radio-button-state
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#radio-button-state

Comment:
as an author, I would have expected that a radio button with value="" checked
would be suffering from being missing when the form is submitted

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Comment 1 Jonas Sicking (Not reading bugmail) 2011-08-22 20:46:56 UTC 
I agree. It also makes it more consistent with <select>
Comment 2 Mounir Lamouri 2011-08-22 23:15:59 UTC 
Uh? Seems really weird to me. We use the checkedness for value missing for radio buttons but the value being empty would have an impact..? In addition, is there any use case for that?
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-04 23:44:49 UTC 
What's the use case?

Note that there is a submission difference between nothing being selected and an <input type=radio value=""> being selected — in the former case, nothing is submitted; in the latter case, the name is submitted. So it is included in the submission. It's not like nothing is sent.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-20 23:38:31 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see comment 3