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?
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