On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Maybe <select required><option value selected disabled>Choose one... > should be allowed?
I considered that, but since disabled options don't get selected, that wouldn't work without yet more special-casing. > The spec allows <select required><option value>Choose one...<option > selected>Foo. Maybe it should require the label option to be selected by > default (either implicitly or explicitly) when the select has required? No, otherwise there'd be no way to just select the current value without removing the label. > The spec currently doesn't require there to be any select label option > if the required attribute is present on select. Right, the label doesn't have to be present. Why would we require one? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
