[whatwg] WebForms2 validity

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Sean Hogan wrote:
>
> I might be missing something obvious, but...
> 
> When are ValidityState properties updated? And when are CSS pseudo-classes
> (:valid, :invalid, :in-range, :out-of-range) updated? 

Continually (in particular whenever the constraints or the values change 
-- the validity states are defined in terms of those values).


> Many textual input form-controls would begin in one or another invalid 
> state (valueMissing, patternMismatch) however authors would typically 
> want CSS validity styles to apply only after checkValidity() - either a 
> manual one or the automatic one performed by form-submission.

Why?

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