<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Ian Hickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">ian@hixie.ch</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
> So add 'multiple' on all of those and you'll have a good reason you'd<br>> want them all to be able to wrap over multiple lines. I.e. ability to<br>> enter multiple bank numbers, multiple social security numbers or<br>
> multiple usernames.<br><br>I could see an argument for <input type=text pattern=... multiple>. That's<br>probably best left for a future version though.<br><br>But I don't think that's the same as multiline input.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>If you could specify that a pattern could match multiple times you would also need to specify the delimiter. Support for multiple should also be very easy by just modifying your pattern without support for a multiple attribute.</div>
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> All of these seem like a bad idea to keep separate for multiline inputs<br>> vs. single line inputs. Except for the default value which for historic<br>> reasons make sense to use separate mechanisms, and cols/size which are<br>
> both mostly rendering differences.<br><br>It's not clear how list="" would work with <textarea>, and I'm not aware<br>of any UA that does <textarea> autocomplete.<br></blockquote><div><br>
</div></div><div>The closest example of this that I can think of is Facebook's autocomplete for messages, but even adding autocomplete to a textarea wouldn't make it possible to implement what they have.</div><div>
<br></div><div>I could see pattern being supported for textarea, but in the same way as a text input. I think it's okay to require JavaScript and use the custom validation system for more complex validation, especially for this version.</div>
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