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Bug 14215 - Why is it invalid to have an empty action attribute, and can't an empty value not just have the same meaning as a missing action attribute (i.e. submit to current page)
Summary: Why is it invalid to have an empty action attribute, and can't an empty value...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-19 10:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-09-21 21:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-09-19 10:24:21 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#form-submission-0
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#form-submission-0

Comment:
Why is it invalid to have an empty action attribute, and can't an empty value
not just have the same meaning as a missing action attribute (i.e. submit to
current page)

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-09-21 21:01:44 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Because browsers do weird things with an empty action="" attribute.

I suppose I could add a warning there if you think that would help.