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Bug 17551 - Please add a definition for "being in a forms collection". The intuitive meaning is that it is document.forms, hence covering all forms in the document. The expression "the forms collection that it is in, if any" is thus confusing.
Summary: Please add a definition for "being in a forms collection". The intuitive mean...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
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: 2012-06-20 03:56 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-20 20:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-06-20 03:56:51 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-form-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-form-element

Comment:
Please add a definition for "being in a forms collection". The intuitive
meaning is that it is document.forms, hence covering all forms in the
document.  The expression "the forms collection that it is in, if any" is thus
confusing.

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:47:43 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18238 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-20 20:12:59 UTC 
Why is it confusing? I don't understand.

It does mean the document.forms collection (hence why it links to it), but not all <form>s are in a forms collection, since some aren't in a Document.