Form re-population with no rules set

[eluser]dmitrybelyakov[/eluser]
[quote author="pyromaniac" date="1229377447"]If a form input has no validation it will not be a property of the validation library like the rest. You can pick these values up with $this->input->post() instead.

That problem has been around a while sadly, but it makes a certain amount of sense. If you don't tell validation about an input, why should it look for it?[/quote]


So if i get your point: we are forced to use some odd validation rules like trim for a <select> value if we want to use re-population feature, right?