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pkinsky
pkinsky

Reputation: 1758

Multiple form ID's in HTML5's input form attribute

The HTML5 input element includes a 'form' attribute, which can contain one or more space delimited form id's. See below for a simplified example, where both form1 and form2 share an input element.

<form id="form1" method="post">
    <input type="submit">
</form>

<form id="form2" method="post">
    <input type="submit">
</form>

<input type="text" form="form1 form2">

At least, that's how it's supposed to work:
http://swatelier.info/at/forms/HTML5attrib.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_form.asp

In Chrome 28, I see that adding a second form id hides an input element from both forms. What modern browsers, if any, support this functionality?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 4219

Answers (1)

rink.attendant.6
rink.attendant.6

Reputation: 46218

Nowhere in the spec says that the value of the form attribute is a space-separated list of IDs of form elements in the document:

If a reassociateable form-associated element has a form attribute specified, then that attribute's value must be the ID of a form element in the element's owner Document.

Source: WHATWG HTML5 specification

Upvotes: 7

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