Of the MIME type text/plain, text is the type and plain is the subtype. In
my opinion, the type property should not vary in order to remain consistent
with its behavior in other controls; you can suggest a subtype property if
you find it useful.
Cheers
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis [mailto:bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:08 PM
To: Kristof Zelechovski
Cc: 'Garrett Smith'; whatwg at whatwg.org
Subject: Re: [whatwg] WF 2.0 -- HTMLTextAreaElement [ type ] attribute
Presumably return a MIME type e.g. text/plain, text/html. IIRC this idea
was never fully thought out. Many textareas accepting HTML actually want
a fragment and often only a subset of markup. It would be handy to have
some way of specifying such profiles for clientside authoring tools to use.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
> If I were one, I would return "text", just like it does in an input
control
> does.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org
> [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Garrett Smith
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:53 AM
> To: whatwg at whatwg.org
> Subject: [whatwg] WF 2.0 -- HTMLTextAreaElement [ type ] attribute
>
> Regarding the [type] attribute:
> ================================================
> interface HTMLTextAreaElement : HTMLElement {
> attribute DOMString defaultValue;
> readonly attribute HTMLFormElement form;
> attribute DOMString accessKey;
> attribute long cols;
> attribute boolean disabled;
> attribute DOMString name;
> attribute boolean readOnly;
> attribute long rows;
> attribute long tabIndex;
> readonly attribute DOMString type;
> ================================================
>
> What does the |type| attribute do?
>