[whatwg] The "form" attribute

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
> 
> I assume that the type of the "form" HTML attribute is IDREF.

Effectively, yes.


> [...] So the DOM property corresponding to the IDREF attribute is of 
> type DOMString, while a sepereate DOM property (which doesn't correspond 
> directly to a HTML attribute) points directly to the reference element.

Note that in DOM2 HTML, the htmlFor attribute was alone; there was no 
attribute pointing to the element. IMHO this is an error -- the ID is 
mostly useless, it's the control that you want, hence the addition of the 
new attribute in WF2.

So when introducing a new attribute, I don't see much value in providing 
access to the DOMString version. Might as well just go straight to making 
the DOM attribute useful.

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