[whatwg] several mail addresses in input type email?

[Anne van Kesteren (fora)]

> Sometimes (and maybe more often than not, e.g. webmail!) one would 
> want to allow a list of E-mail addresses rather than only one in an 
> INPUT type="email". The spec doesn't discuss this as far as I can 
> see. Would it be better to allow this explicitly, stating that UAs 
> should be able to validate a comma- or semicolon-separated list of 
> mail addresses and that authors who wish to limit the field to only 
> one may specify a pattern to limit it? Something like 
> pattern=".*@[^@]*" would mean the input could only be valid if the 
> field contained one and only one @ sign.

This is basically being discussed for "select editable", but no solution 
has been found that suits all needs,

  - backwards compatible
  - forward compatible
  - implementable
  - semantic

and therefore there hasn't been looked into this yet I suppose. Having a 
comma separated list might work, but is probably too technical for most 
users.


> Thoughts? Which is in your opinion more common, type=email-single or 
> type=email-multiple?

Single. Just see all the weblogs, login forms etc.


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  Anne van Kesteren
  <http://annevankesteren.nl/>