[whatwg] [WF2] |min| and |max| number of selected |option|s

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 31 May 2008, Christoph Päper wrote:
> 
> When using
> 
>   <input type=checkbox>
> 
> or
> 
>   <select multiple>
> 
> one somtimes wants to limit the number of selected check boxes or 
> options. I have no idea how to model this with |input|, but |select| 
> could adopt the |min| and |max| attributes. They would not limit the 
> content of |value| but the number of selected |option|s, which is 
> similar to what is already specified for file upload controls. A common 
> and special case would be setting the same value on both attributes to 
> require a certain number of options to be selected.
> 
> I'd really like it if someone could come up with a way to make this work 
> with |input|, too.

Since this is a pretty specialised desire, and not one that we really want 
to encourage (it's somewhat sub-optimal UI), I think this is something we 
should leave up to scripts to enforce, using oninput="", 
setCustomValidity(), and so forth.

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