Re: [whatwg] Document with a single input[type=radio]?
Mikko Rantalainen writes: > The spec says in 4.10.5.1.16 Radio Button state (type=radio) > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#radio-button-state-%28type=radio%29 > > "A document must not contain an input element whose radio button group > contains only that element." > > What this is supposed to mean in practice? That if you include a radio button group with only one radio button in it, your document isn't valid HTML. > Could this sentence be dropped because this does not match real world > browser behavior? No, because it isn't a requirement on browsers, so browser behaviour is irrelevant. It's a requirement on authors. (It could be dropped for other reasons, of course. I'm not making any claim either way on whether it's a good requirement on authors; merely that browser behaviour can't be the reason for dropping it.) > (A streaming browser will may hit this case after parsing the first > radio button element in the document. Then what?) Then browsers will follow the parsing algorithms and treat it accordingly. For backwards compatibility and interoperability, the spec covers how to handle all sorts of invalid input that authors might send them. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
Re: [whatwg] Document with a single input[type=radio]?
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Mikko Rantalainen < mikko.rantalai...@peda.net> wrote: > The spec says in 4.10.5.1.16 Radio Button state (type=radio) > > > > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#radio-button-state-%28type=radio%29 > > "A document must not contain an input element whose radio button group > contains only that element." > > What this is supposed to mean in practice? Could this sentence be > dropped because this does not match real world browser behavior? > It means that you must have at least two radio buttons in the group. (A streaming browser will may hit this case after parsing the first > radio button element in the document. Then what?) > Nothing, because the document is not parsed yet.
Re: [whatwg] Document with a single input[type=radio]?
This is an authoring requirement, not a browser implementation requirement. In practice, it means conformance checkers (aka validators) should error for lone radio buttons. From: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalai...@peda.net> Sent: Apr 7, 2016 7:49 AM To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: [whatwg] Document with a single input[type=radio]? The spec says in 4.10.5.1.16 Radio Button state (type=radio) https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#radio-button-state-%28type=radio%29 "A document must not contain an input element whose radio button group contains only that element." What this is supposed to mean in practice? Could this sentence be dropped because this does not match real world browser behavior? (A streaming browser will may hit this case after parsing the first radio button element in the document. Then what?) -- Mikko
[whatwg] Document with a single input[type=radio]?
The spec says in 4.10.5.1.16 Radio Button state (type=radio) https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#radio-button-state-%28type=radio%29 "A document must not contain an input element whose radio button group contains only that element." What this is supposed to mean in practice? Could this sentence be dropped because this does not match real world browser behavior? (A streaming browser will may hit this case after parsing the first radio button element in the document. Then what?) -- Mikko
