Make use of REQUIRED attribute in forms?

[Rhino.Freak]

We can submit the forms (username, password etc) without actually filling which later gives us an error.
Why not include a required inside the input tags there by default?
much easier solution

[Rhino.Freak]

http://i.imgur.com/N5o2NBK.png

this is what I'm talking about guys. Anyone understand me?

[CHItA]

this is what I'm talking about guys. Anyone understand me?

We do. However it is not supported by all browsers that we support, and one could argue, that then we should move all form validations to the front end, which is fine, but a rather huge amount of work.

[RMcGirr83]

As far as I can tell the only browser that doesn't support the attribute is safari? How much work are we talking about? When doing a search on both prosilver and adm styles I got 150 hits for the text, email and password types...many of which are, probably, in the same html file.

[CHItA]

As far as I can tell the only browser that doesn't support the attribute is safari? How much work are we talking about? When doing a search on both prosilver and adm styles I got 150 hits for the text, email and password types...many of which are, probably, in the same html file.

AFAIK IE9 and below as well. I'm not against it, I'm just saying it is (or should be) more complecated then adding the required attribute to the form elements.

[Barrnet]

+1
Most of users use a modern browser chan check if a "required" form is compiled, and the error message is already translated in user's locale. This can help to modernize the UI and offer a more user friendly form with less reload of page.

[Going4Quests]

You can check here where the required attribute is supported: http://caniuse.com/#search=required

I think it would be a great addition to include require, but the back end validation shouldnt be removed. Html attributes can be bypassed easy apparantly and also ofcourse there are browsers that dont support this.

But it wont hurt to just add this in across phpBB as an extra layer. It will work in browsers that support it improving the usage of phpBB and do no single harm in older browsers seeing attributes that arent supported are just being ignored by the browsers.

Support.

[3Di]

If that's somehow trasparent to the browsers that are not currently supporting it, why not?
I am then all with this.

[RMcGirr83]

I think it would be a great addition to include require, but the back end validation shouldnt be removed.

It will not invalidate the back end PHP processes. It's simply a tooltip type popup if a user misses an input.

[Rhino.Freak]

Guys I think phpbb 3.2 is already feature locked (correct me if I'm wrong)
So by the time the next version (3.3?) comes out I'm sure even Safari will be supporting this. Let's think future

Let's do this!