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form/action default Oliver Block 08-21-2006
Posted by Oliver Block on August 21, 2006, 9:15 am
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Hello,

does anybody no, which the default action is (if no action attribute value
is assigned).

I didn't find anything in the TR yet.

Best Regards,

Oliver


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Posted by Rik on August 21, 2006, 9:24 am
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Oliver Block wrote:
> Hello,
>
> does anybody no, which the default action is (if no action attribute
> value is assigned).
>
> I didn't find anything in the TR yet.

The same page most of the time, W3C states:
action = uri [CT]
This attribute specifies a form processing agent. User agent behavior
for a value other than an HTTP URI is undefined.

So, default browser behaviour, which is mostly the same page AFAIK, but can
differ between user agents. Conclusion is you should always set the action
attribute.

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus



Posted by Oliver Block on August 21, 2006, 9:36 am
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Rik wrote:

> So, default browser behaviour, which is mostly the same page AFAIK, but
> can differ between user agents. Conclusion is you should always set the
> action attribute.

So action is by default 'base' I assume!?

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Oliver


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Posted by Harlan Messinger on August 21, 2006, 10:04 am
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Oliver Block wrote:
> Rik wrote:
>
>> So, default browser behaviour, which is mostly the same page AFAIK, but
>> can differ between user agents. Conclusion is you should always set the
>> action attribute.
>
> So action is by default 'base' I assume!?

No idea what you mean by "base". As Rik said, there is no standard
default, and some but not necessarily all browsers use the current page
as the default.

Posted by Oliver Block on August 21, 2006, 11:30 am
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Harlan Messinger wrote:

> Oliver Block wrote:
>> So action is by default 'base' I assume!?
>
> No idea what you mean by "base". As Rik said, there is no standard
> default, and some but not necessarily all browsers use the current page
> as the default.

The base URI.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.4.1>

oliver

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