[whatwg] [wf2] Filtering datalist with pattern
Matthew Raymond
mattraymond at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 23 21:02:49 PDT 2006
Ian Hickson wrote:
> Could you give an example of this? It seems like the common cases, like
> picking named values, would be handled by label="" vs value="":
>
> 1:<input type="number" name="gauge" list="gauges" min="0" step="any">
> <datalist id="gauges">
> <option label="Z" value="220">
> <option label="N" value="160">
> <option label="HO" value="87">
> <option value="8">
> </datalist>
Yeah, I suppose that would be fine, except for extremely rare cases
where the value absolutely has to be outside the pattern. The following
don't have fixed-length numeric values, for instance:
| <datalist id="math">
| <option label="i" value="sqrt(-1)">
| <option label="π" value="pi">
| <option label="e" value="e">
| </datalist>
I'm not entirely sure if they're a big enough deal to bother with.
The |label| attribute really would fix most problems. Now all we have to
do is get a vendor to implement |label| properly. :(
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