https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120282
Christophe Strobbe <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Christophe Strobbe <[email protected]> --- The bug report does not give a sufficiently convincing rationale for reducing the number of values that can be chosen from a drop-down list to just one value. To make a comparison with HTML, the select element has always allowed developers to enable the selection of multiple values (by adding the attribute "multiple"): https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#elementdef-select Moreover, the ODF 1.3 specification (released in June 2021) does not express a limitation either. Subchapter "13.5.13 <form:listbox>" of Part 3 says: The <form:listbox> element defines an input control that allows a user to select one or more items from a list. It is an alternative representation for a group of radio buttons. (Note that the last sentence contradicts the first; if more than value can be selected, the listbox is an alternative representation of a "group" of check boxes.) The more cogent argument would be that selecting more than one value from a single list box is not user friendly for most users and even more difficult for keyboard-only users. See for example the Stack Overflow question "Many people don't know how to multi-select items in a HTML <select> control, so…?" https://stackoverflow.com/q/204075/6002174 (The answers can be ignored in the context of this bug.) The usability of multiselect drop-downs is sufficiently bad to require instructions for users near the drop-down list. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
