Commenttext not marked as required

[infected]

I thought i already opened a ticket to this but i cant find it... Maybe i didnt hit the create ticket button?!

When using comment_form() the name and email fields marked as required while the textarea for commenttext is not. If i send my comment without text i'll get this notice

Error: please type a comment.

So it also should be marked as required field.

Sounds like a good idea, Kind of should be consistent in the forms :)

Mark comment field as required

Looks like maybe my comment either got stopped by dd32's, or I was commenting to the other phantom ticket. Looks like the former.

Anyway, I don't mind adding aria-required, but the * seems just redundant and silly. Mentioned it to MarkJaquith and a few others and I seemed to recall them nodding in agreement on that.

Ah, comment text already has aria-required.

My opinion: Either the field is required (the error notice is saying that) then the * isn´t redundant, otherwise it isn´t a required field. Maybe the code already has an aria-required but visitors don´t look into the code for required fields. ;-)

Replying to infected:

Maybe the code already has an aria-required but visitors don´t look into the code for required fields. ;-)

I guess in the case of a comment text that's just implied by common sense.

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

I guess in the case of a comment text that's just implied by common sense.

From this point of view, yes. It's just a cosmetic thing...

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Replying to infected:

Maybe the code already has an aria-required but visitors don´t look into the code for required fields. ;-)

I guess in the case of a comment text that's just implied by common sense.

I would agree that the comment field is common sense. Proposing close