Adding Form Participation Support to Web Components

Many years ago when the web platform began to really improve, when everything was "HTML5 this" and "HTML5 that", I remember being particularly excited by the updates to forms. I started my web career doing a lot of form processing and have always thought it was one of the more important aspects of the platform. Anything that improved that was a good thing. In my explorations of web components, I was ecstatic to discover that web components can be participants in forms. So what do we mean by that? What’s a Form Field? # Form fields have a number of different features, including: Including a name and value as part of the overall form. This is the bare minimum thing a... more →
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