Hacky or not, I like it! :)

I, for now, decided against renaming the form.js to formvalidation.js because i fear a too big breaking change and most probably people who want form elements also want the validation anyway.

I understand the breaking change part. Propably not worth it.

But please don't assume that people using form elements will want validation too. One developer I know uses SUI for the HTML/CSS, but ships it with his own vanilla JS. I often rely purely on backend validation. So form elements and validation are definitely 2 separate things.

I could have just changed the checkbox selection name to "formvalidation" but effectively the script would have continued with "form" anyway which probably creates more confusion.

You're right, thanks for not doing that ;)

The double form component is an odd ambiguity from SUI. Can imagine if you want to leave it as is for now, but maybe keep it in the backlog of a possible v3?

But please don't assume that people using form elements will want validation too. One developer I know uses SUI for the HTML/CSS, but ships it with his own vanilla JS. I often rely purely on backend validation. So form elements and validation are definitely 2 separate things.

Totally agree! Backend validation ist basically the main point to implement any data validation.
TBH, i was about to rename it, but also saw too much of needed changes (docs...)

I also thought about making it backward compatible somehow... but was too lazy to do all the needed implementation....for now.

The double form component is an odd ambiguity from SUI. Can imagine if you want to leave it as is for now, but maybe keep it in the backlog of a possible v3?

Seems legit, yes