[whatwg] Various attributes

Jim Ley jim.ley at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 03:47:27 PDT 2004


On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:48:37 +0200, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
<hallvors at online.no> wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2004 at 18:58, Anne van Kesteren (fora) wrote:
> 
> > >     Authors may want to force a selection by having no button
> > >     in a group pre-selected.
> 
> > One of the radio buttons should always be preselected, per design imo.
> 
> I'm not sure why, but in that case it obviously renders the
> "required" attribute useless for radio buttons..  Not the end of the
> world.. :-)

No it doesn't, it's perfectly possible to de-select radio buttons via
the DOM, that doesn't result in other radio buttons being selected.

Jim.



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