[whatwg] multiple forms submit

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sun Apr 10 16:44:46 PDT 2005


On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
>
> A submit button may be associated with multiple forms through the form 
> attribute. Theoretically, this should allow the button to submit several 
> forms at the same time when pressed. This could get really messy, so I 
> propose that a submit button should only be allowed to be associated 
> with one form at a time. (Along the same line, hitting enter when focus 
> is in a text field should only submit one form.)

I have tweaked the spec to hopefully fix this. Please let me know if it is 
still broken. :-)

Thanks,
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