Parcel: 🐛 Using type="text" on input in HTML gets stripped

[donaldallen]

Choose one: is this a 🐛 bug report or 🙋 feature request?
🐛

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

No config. Just a HTML5 Boilerplate with Parcel.

🤔 Expected Behavior

When running parcel build index.html --public-url ./, any HTML should not be altered.

😯 Current Behavior

When running parcel build index.html --public-url ./:

<input type="text" name="FirstName" class="form-control" id="FirstName" placeholder="*Firstname" required>

changes to

<input name="FirstName" class="form-control" id="FirstName" placeholder="*Firstname" required="">

💁 Possible Solution

Not sure.

🔦 Context

Need type="text" to stay, especially when using CSS [type="text"].

🌍 Your Environment

| Software | Version(s) |
| ---------------- | ---------- |
| Parcel | 1.4.1
| Node | 8.5.0
| npm/Yarn | 5.3.0
| Operating System | macOS 10.13.2

[davidnagli]

When is this a problem? Because I’m pretty sure the browser defaults to assuming that an input is type=“text”, so it’s actually kinda redundant information.

Is there some case you encountered where this behavior get’s in the way?

[fathyb]

@davidnagli it's a problem because it breaks CSS selectors, it's a known side-effect from htmlnano

@donaldallen did you try the htmlnano removeRedundantAttributes option?

Example, in a .htmlnanorc file (see #445 for a list of possible location for the configuration) :

{
  removeRedundantAttributes: false
}

[donaldallen]

That did the trick. Thanks @fathyb!