1012893 - input type="color" should allow empty value

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Yohan Boniface [:ybon]]

The specs says that the native color input is not yes ready for empty values (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#color-state-%28type=color%29).
Though we already hit this as a usability issue, because, among that not allowing to clear the field, it *forces* the specs default value (#000000) on load, which does not allow a user to keep the field blank.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003575

Comment 1

[Arnaud Bienner]

IMHO this sounds like more a spec issue, so this bug should be close (as we currently respect the spec). However, you might want to report this issue to WHATWG/W3C directly (but I suspect this has already been done).

Comment 2

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Yohan, I agree with Arnaud. Did you contact the whatwg/w3c lists to ask about this?

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

It's been three years, and the spec still says that value cannot be empty. I'm guessing this isn't something that will change, but I've put dev-doc-needed on just in case it does.