Ray - I say try the 0x0 trick and see how far you get with it. It's a 
bummer to have to hack around like that :\

On Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:20:24 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Seems like the best solution might be to create a 0x0 opaque text input 
> (without a name attribute) next to the custom form field.  If the custom 
> form field is invalid, call setCustomValidity("some invalid message"); on 
> the opaque field.  In essence, make sure this "dummy" field is marked as 
> invalid when the CE is invalid, and reset to valid when the CE is valid 
> again.  
>
> When the form is submitted, if this convention is followed, the browser 
> will reject the submission and a visual cue will be added by the browser on 
> the edge of the invalid CE field (in all browsers other than Safari, since 
> Safari doesn't include any UI support for the HTML5 validation API.  One 
> problem with this approach is the fact that you won't be able to easily 
> link the validation failure to the custom element.  But perhaps this can be 
> overcome with some sort of convention.  Say, a customElement property on 
> the "dummy" input that can contain a reference to the actual CE.  
>
> I'm finding this to be important to supporting the constraints API in the 
> ajax-form <https://github.com/garstasio/ajax-form> element I've 
> developed, and intend to follow these conventions in a CE form field I 
> developed as well (file-input <https://github.com/garstasio/file-input>) 
> so that ajax-form can recognize an invalid file-input (due to aborted form 
> submission) in browsers with shadow DOM support.
>
> If this can be an accepted approach for CE form fields, then I think we 
> need to agree on a custom property name for the dummy field, or at least 
> some convention for programmatically getting a handle on the invalid CE, 
> given the dummy field.  
>
> On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 10:13:46 AM UTC-5, Eric Bidelman wrote:
>>
>> This was recently asked on StackOverflow 
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24615634/how-do-you-get-html5-inputs-to-validate-if-they-are-inside-polymer-web-component>
>>  
>> :)
>>
>> FWIW, there was a discussion 
>> <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/polymer-dev/V0qah6T1Lzk/discussion> 
>> on this topic a while back (custom input elements participating in <form> 
>> submission). The general consensus was that it's easy enough to create and 
>> submit forms using FormData() and AJAX.
>>
>> I agree that it would be nice to stick <paper-input>/<core-input> inside 
>> a <form> and have it validated and submitted. The element needs to inherit 
>> from standard <input> for it to become part of the submission flow. 
>> However, one reason our input elements don't inherit from the standard 
>> input elements is that they're notoriously difficult to style.
>>
>> I tried experimenting what this could like but didn't get very far: 
>> http://jsbin.com/sotaqire/10/edit*. *While <input is="test-element" 
>> name="doisubmit"> does get submitted by the form, but the HTML5 
>> Constraint Validation API 
>> <http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/constraintvalidation/> doesn't 
>> pick up the custom element.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Joe Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using Polymer Web Components and my application targets Chrome. On 
>>> my form, outside the Web Components I have an input type='number', when I 
>>> enter 'a' into the input and submit the form, I get a tooltip that says 
>>> "Please enter a number." 
>>>
>>> However, I have another input type="number" that is in the Shadow DOM of 
>>> a web component. When I enter 'a' into that field and submit the form, Is 
>>> there any not-too-hacky way to get this functionality to work in Web 
>>> Component?
>>>
>>> Alternately can I have a Web Component that does a 'submit' when you 
>>> click it or click enter, that also fires all my validation rules when it is 
>>> activated?
>>>
>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>> P.S.  I also need to make something like the tagging functionality that 
>>> allows you to tag topics in Google Groups when you make a post.  Is that 
>>> open source code that I can lift?
>>>  
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