On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Furthermore, as I understand the above definitions, the spec does allow >> to specify label and value in one step in a select element: >> >> <select> >> <option>This is value and label >> </select> >> >> But not in a datalist, as the label is taken from the textContent rather >> than from the value of the option element: >> >> <datalist> >> <option value="No label here"> >> <option label="No value here"> >> </datalist> > > The difference is that the value is typically shown in the datalist case.
At least <input type=email> seems like a very common example where you'd want to show a label. Here you likely will want to show peoples names, but choosing a name would use the email address as the .value for the <input>. / Jonas
