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Bug 16936 - maxlength should probably be complicated with minlength. Seeing maxlength applied to passwords made me think of this, and the added security of a minimum length could be promoted in the documentation.
Summary: maxlength should probably be complicated with minlength. Seeing maxlength app...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10053
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-05-04 18:10 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-19 23:05 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-05-04 18:10:28 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-input-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#attr-input-type-keywords
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#attr-input-type-keywords

Comment:
maxlength should probably be complicated with minlength. Seeing maxlength
applied to passwords made me think of this, and the added security of a
minimum length could be promoted in the documentation.

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:25:05 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18140 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-19 23:05:35 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10053 ***