IE7 default form method is “GET”. How can I tell if it's user-entered or default?

Question

If a user creates a form without a method attribute, it seems like most browsers will handle this at the time of form submission. So upon inspection of the form element afte

Answer 1

(How do I reply to a specific reply?) (in reply to bobice:)

IE's behaviour is correct!

If I read the relevant specs correctly, these are all the case in conformant implementations (which IE is not):

form.method == "get" /* IETF and W3C HTMLs and XHTMLs */ || form.method == "GET" /* HTML5* */
form.hasAttribute ("method") == false
form.getAttribute ("method") == ""
form.getAttributeNode ("method") == null

In Chrome "8.0.552.28 beta" on Linux, I get (also not correct)

var form = document.createElement ("form")
undefined
form.method == "get" || form.method == "GET"
false /* actual value is "" */
form.hasAttribute ("method") == false
true
form.getAttribute ("method") == ""
false /* actual value is null */
form.getAttributeNode ("method") == null
true

• In HTML5, method is an enumerated attribute equal to one of GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. form.method must "reflect" the method attribute, which in the case of an enumerated attribute means the specified value if it matches one of the valid values or else the first valid value. (I may be reading this slightly wrong, but that is my interpretation.)