hx-swap should default to outerHTML if hx-select is set?

[mqudsi]

If you consider that hx-select is going to pretty much always be used when your backend is serving a full response rather than a partial response (i.e. for graceful enhancement ajaxification of a regular document that would normally link to a full page), I believe it makes sense for hx-swap to automatically default to outerHTML rather than innerHTML so that the entirety of the element in the response is swapped out one-for-one rather than the element being embedded within itself.

[1cg]

I agree that makes some logical sense, but I'm more and more against hidden stuff like this in my old age. Since the attributes are inherited from parents, I don't think this is too much of a burden.