On 8 July 2010 09:04, Rob Nichols <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: >> No. <form> without an action is invalid HTML, so its behavior is >> undefined. An action must always be specified. > > Thank you for that comment on what should happen. However, the fact > remains that if you don't specify a target action, browsers will send > the submitted data to the current url. Don't confuse 'must' with > 'should'.
Yet you make the mistake yourself by saying "browsers will" instead of "browsers *may*". What action the user agent performs if an 'action' parameter of a form is anything other than an http(s):// url is undefined... so they're free to do what they want. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.3 If *you* want to be *sure* a form submits how you want, you *must* include an action parameter. If you don't care what your form does, then you *should* do whatever you prefer :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
