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Bug 28139 - Not necessarily a bug, but a clarification would be nice: Does "may have any string value" mean that [...]
Summary: Not necessarily a bug, but a clarification would be nice: Does "may have any ...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
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: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attribu...
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Reported: 2015-03-04 21:05 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2016-03-25 12:46 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2015-03-04 21:05:52 UTC 
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html
Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#attribute-text
Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attribute-text
Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Comment:
Not necessarily a bug, but a clarification would be nice: Does "may have any
string value" mean that attributes can also have values that are not strings?
(note: I'm not talking about
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html#common-microsyntaxe
s which, as I understand, are just descriptions of the format of (attribute)
values).

Or does it rather mean that the value is always a string and it may be any
value?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2015-03-30 22:26:31 UTC 
It means the latter.
Comment 2 Anne 2015-09-02 09:38:20 UTC 
How would you suggest we word this instead?
Comment 3 Anne 2016-03-25 12:46:31 UTC 
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/940