Should light DOM form controls in a form-associated custom element be ignored during form reset? about html HOT 3 CLOSED

Aren't they only ignored for submission because they don't have a name attribute? It's also not really clear how these new controls relate to the custom element control. It seems like the custom element control is only used as a vehicle to insert them?

This seems more like a Stack Overflow question than an actual issue with the specification.

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Aren't they only ignored for submission because they don't have a name attribute?

You’re right! Additionally, form reset behaves such that form controls with and without name attribute are reset. That is to say that form reset doesn’t distinguish between such controls and therefore, neither should form controls that are part of a form-associated custom element.

It's also not really clear how these new controls relate to the custom element control. It seems like the custom element control is only used as a vehicle to insert them?

That’s a byproduct of my attempt to cut down my demonstration to a minimum. In the context where I started wondering about this, it was a color picker composed of a handful of inputs (e.g. three inputs for RGB) with a form value being something like rgb(1 2 3 / 0.5). The individual input’s reset behavior was interfering with how I wanted it to work. It doesn’t make much sense to keep several value attributes on these individual controls when you already have <color picker value="rgb(0 0 0 / 0.5)"></color-picker>, but I digress.

This seems more like a Stack Overflow question than an actual issue with the specification.

That’s a fair assessment. I wasn’t sure exactly how to categorize my ask and didn’t realize it was a misunderstanding of how form controls contribute values on form submit (and really rather unrelated to form-associated custom elements in particular). Knowing that, I don’t consider this an issue with the spec anymore and will close this issue.

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To be clear, creating a minimum viable example is great and very helpful. I recommend trying to go even further next time as that would have yielded <form><input value=Bob><input type=reset><input type=submit></form> and might have made it immediately apparent what was going wrong.

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