[whatwg] [html5] attribute value whitespace handling

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 fora at annevankesteren.nl wrote:
> > 
> > The form control there would not be valid. There's nothing in either 
> > HTML4 or WF2 that says that leading whitespace on the value="" 
> > attribute should de stripped, as far as I can tell.
> 
> They "may be stripped" and authors should not include them. Still 
> confusing and in need for clarification.
> 
> In two steps:
> 1. <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-value-INPUT>
> 2. <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-cdata>

Ah indeed, my bad. Yes, this will have to be defined more clearly in 
HTML5.

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