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Re: AT support for required="true"

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Mar 1, 2017 10:24AM

On 1 March 2017 at 09:10, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> The problem (or feature) using required is that, in browsers that
> support it, the browsers will move focus to the field and display a
> browser status error message.
>

You can use the novalidate attribute to override this.
http://w3c.github.io/html/sec-forms.html#element-attrdef-form-novalidate
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SteveF
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