[whatwg] Incremental rendering of forms

Matthew Thomas mpt at myrealbox.com
Fri Aug 6 17:56:06 PDT 2004


On 7 Aug, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote:
>
> On 5 Aug 2004 at 19:46, Jim Ley wrote:
>>
>> I've never seen a persuasive use case for the splitting of form
>> elements outside their form containers
>
> Disagree. It is very nice if you want the equivalent of several forms
> in a table, say one table row for each form. Since FORM isn't allowed
> to appear mixed in with the table markup, the "form" attribute is a
> reasonable solution.
> ...

So instead of inventing a new attribute, why not just change the 
content models of TABLE, THEAD, TBODY, TFOOT, and TR to allow FORM 
elements?

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Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/




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