<input> is not an empty element

[petdance]

Migrated from RT, originally by Tomas Doran @bobtfish

$ perl -MHTML::Tagset -e'warn $HTML::Tagset::emptyElement{input}'
1 at -e line 1.

This appears entirely wrong. <input> tags can contain content as this is how you set previous values for them..

E.g. <input type="text" name="foo">initial value</input>

[petdance]

Comments from @PhilterPaper on original RT ticket.

I don't think this is correct. <input> uses a value="text" attribute rather than child content. Is this perhaps a very, very old version of HTML?

Note that there is also a "placeholder" attribute, used for a prompt string (but not a default value). I don't think both "value" and "placeholder" can be used at the same time (since they both put stuff in the input box), but I don't see any restrictions on this.

[haarg]

This is incorrect. As shown in the spec, input tags have no ending tag, thus they cannot have any content. To provide an initial value for an input, you use the value attribute.

[oalders]

I think we can close this issue.