[whatwg] WF 2.0 -- HTMLTextAreaElement [ type ] attribute

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Sep 13 18:22:46 PDT 2007


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Garrett Smith wrote:
> On 9/13/07, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Garrett Smith wrote:
> <snipola>
> >
> > (WF2 is just a delta spec, it doesn't define anything that is already in
> > HTML4 and DOM2 HTML. When WF2 is merged with the rest of HTML5, it will be
> > turned into a real spec.)
> 
> There isn't any type attribute on Textarea though, is there?
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.7
>
> Boy will I feel dumb if I've been missing something all this time :/

You snipped the URL I included in my original reply:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#HTML-HTMLTextAreaElement-type

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Weston Ruter wrote:
>
> It appears that there is a _DOM_ attribute "type" [1], but not a _content_
> attribute "type" [2].
> 
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#HTML-HTMLTextAreaElement-type
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.7

Right.

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