[whatwg] <input name=isindex>

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Oct 28 13:13:25 PDT 2008


On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Martijn wrote:
>
> Submission of an <isindex> element is different compared to normal form 
> submission with a text input element, only the value part is submitted.
> 
> This parsing definition:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#isindex
> means that <form><input name=isindex></form> also should only submit
> the value part.
> And indeed, that is what IE7 seems to be doing.
> Mozilla even has a bug filed for this:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93795
> 
> So I guess this needs to be mentioned somewhere in the web forms spec or 
> something?

Done, thanks.

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