[whatwg] Form controls

Olav Junker Kjær olav at olav.dk
Sun Dec 12 09:55:01 PST 2004


Maybe this is a really stupid question, but what exactly is the 
definition of a "form control" ?

E.g. in section A it says "The oninvalid attribute is added to all form 
controls except fieldset and output elements"

 From the context I would guess that form controls are: select, 
textarea, input, button, fieldset and output elements - but not 
datalist, optgroup, option, label and legend elements, since they don't 
support validation, and an oninvalid handler wouldn't make sense. Is 
this correct?

Olav Junker Kjær



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