jakartaee / jakartaee/faces

autocomplete attribute missing on form, input and select* components

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Component: Facelets/VDL Priority: Minor Type: Bug
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Description

It does work on h:inputText, but is not available on select** menus and etc. The
pdldocs do not list this attribute for:

inputTextArea
selectBooleanCheckbox
selectManyCheckbox
selectManyListbox
selectManyMenu
selectOneListbox
selectOneMenu
selectOneRadio

According to the W3C spec, these should all accept the autocomplete attribute:
[http://www.w3.org/Submission/web-forms2/#the-autocomplete](http://www.w3.org/Submission/web-forms2/#the-autocomplete)

Not only allows the autocomplete property.
We should have that on the form as well:

See here for details:
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533486(VS.85).aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533486(VS.85).aspx)

This is broken in JSF 1.1, JSF 1.2 and 2.0 EDR
#### Environment
Operating System: Linux
Platform: PC
URL: [http://ocpsoft.com](http://ocpsoft.com)
#### Affected Versions
[2.0]

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by locating the PDL documentation and component definitions for inputTextArea, the select* components, and the form component. Compare the listed attributes with the W3C and Microsoft references, then verify that autocomplete is exposed consistently for every named component and that the corresponding documentation is updated.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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