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Bug 26122 - According to your Regex a@b is a valid email address. You are not require a TLD to be given.
Summary: According to your Regex a@b is a valid email address. You are not require a ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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: 2014-06-17 21:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-08-28 20:53 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-06-17 21:41:14 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#e-mail-state-(type=email)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#e-mail-state-(type=email)
Referrer: 

Comment:
According to your Regex a@b is a valid email address.  You are not require a
TLD to be given.

Posted from: 50.193.86.13
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-06-18 21:19:29 UTC 
That is correct, as far as I can tell according to the relevant RFCs.