Alex Vincent wrote:
I'm drifting into writing code for the pattern attribute on text
fields again, and I wondered:  if text inputs can have pattern
attribute for regular expression matching, why not text area elements?

What's the use-case for it? Textareas are almost always for such large amounts of input that they are almost always free-form text. Why allow the pattern attribute?

--
Geoffrey Sneddon — Opera Software
<http://gsnedders.com/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

Reply via email to