Re: HTML::Form and <select multiple="">

Josh Rai <[email protected]> writes:

> I noticed a change to HTML::Form::ListInput's add_to_form() method
> between versions 5.79 and 5.800 of libwww-perl (revisions 1.39 and
> 1.44 of HTML/Form.pm) that I'm not sure was intentional.  Previously,
> a <select> tag like this:
> 
>    <select name="foo" multiple="">
> 
> was interpreted as a multiple select menu.  In the newer versions, it
> is not.  As far as I can tell from the HTML specs, that's illegal HTML
> (it should just be multiple, or multiple="multiple", or nothing).  But
> I think the old way that Form.pm interpreted it is more realistic, and
> it conforms with the way I've seen it work on a couple of browsers.
> 
> This would be a patch for Form.pm revision 1.49 (libwww-perl-5.803):
> 
> 1009c1009
> <     if ($type eq "option" && $self->{multiple}) {
> ---
>  >     if ($type eq "option" && exists $self->{multiple}) {

Thanks, applied.  Will appear in LWP-5.805.

--Gisle