I’m a novice (past beginner stage, I hope) and have a question about HH.textarea. The definition in Halogen.HTML.Elements is:
textarea :: forall w i. Leaf I.HTMLtextarea w i
But shouldn’t it be:
textarea :: forall w i. Node I.HTMLtextarea w i
A Node vs a Leaf, because the HTML is
<textarea [properties]>... some text ...</textarea>
Assuming I got that right, I think the “value” property should be removed from I.HTMLtextarea. I can’t find that property listed in the HTML documentation.
I imagine that normally textArea would be Node and not Leaf. However, that would likely enable invalid HTML. What happens when you put a div as its children?
Looking at HTMLtextarea, I think you value was a workaround to the above problem.
value is part of the real API for the element: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-elements.html#htmltextareaelement
I guess technically it should be a special node type that only allows text content, but I think controlling it with value is more natural so it matches the other input types. Well, aside from <select> I suppose.