HTML Data List Element

Re:HTML Data List Element by whoisthemachine on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:49AM (#27603881)

Yeah it's kind of awkward. My first assumption would have been that it would have had semantic similarities to a `<select>`, ie

  <input type="datalist">
    <option>a</option>
  </input>

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Re:HTML Data List Element by chrismorgan on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:04AM (#27604064)

<input> has been an empty element right from the start, meaning it mustn’t have any children. (And the HTML syntax enforces this.)

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Re:HTML Data List Element by CodesInChaos on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:50AM (#27603895)

AFAIK <input> is hardcoded as self-closing in the html5 parser.

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Re:HTML Data List Element by whoisthemachine on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:44PM (#27606578)

Hm interesting... presumably this could be changed though? We aren't locked to <input> following one convention, are we?

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