[whatwg] HTML 5 clarifications on ValidityState?

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Peter Kasting wrote:
>
> [...] However, I'm not sure why elements which are barred from 
> constraint validation (fieldset, output) have a setCustomValidity() 
> method; perhaps so that authors could blindly iterate over all 
> form-associated elements and call this method?

Yes, that's exactly it.

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