[whatwg] removing attributes

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Aug 23 17:24:34 PDT 2005


On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, [UTF-8] Olav Junker Kjær wrote:
>
> Is it possible to remove a constraint like maxLength (on input elements) 
> through script, eg. by setting it to null? By default a field does not 
> have any maxlength constraint, so it would seem natural that if you set 
> a constraint through script, it could be removed again.

Yes, there are a number of DOM attributes that map to content attributes. 
This is already the case in DOM2 HTML.

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