Intent to Prototype: HTMLInputElement showPicker()
François Beaufort 🇫🇷
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Explainer
None yet; see https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6909#issuecomment-956747809 for a rough explanation of the behavior, which we will turn into a proper explainer before shipping.
Specification
None yet (will be specified in whatwg/html)
Summary
The HTMLInputElement showPicker() method allows web developers to programmatically show a browser picker for temporal, color, and file inputs.
Blink component
Motivation
Developers have been asking for years for a way to programmatically open a browser date picker. See https://www.google.com/search?q=programmatically+open+date+picker+site:stackoverflow.com
Because of that, they had to rely on custom widget libraries and CSS hacks for specific browsers.
Initial public proposal
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6909
TAG review
None yet; we will file during the prototyping phase once an explainer/spec draft is ready.
TAG review status
Pending
Risks
Interoperability and Compatibility
Gecko: No official signal yet; general agreement this seemed like a reasonable idea on the HTML triage call. See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6936
WebKit: No signal
Web developers: No signal
Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
No. We are able to test the error case behaviors but the actual showing of the picker is not testable using WPT.
Requires code in //chrome?
False
Tracking bug
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=939561
Estimated milestones
No milestones specified
Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5692248021794816
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Mike Taylor
Summary
The HTMLInputElement showPicker() method allows web developers to programmatically show a browser picker for temporal, color, and file inputs.
Blink component
Motivation
Developers have been asking for years for a way to programmatically open a browser date picker. See https://www.google.com/search?q=programmatically+open+date+picker+site:stackoverflow.com
Because of that, they had to rely on custom widget libraries and CSS hacks for specific browsers.
This is really cool - thanks for working on it. I was just thinking about the EyeDropper API proposal, which references input[type=color] in https://github.com/WICG/eyedropper-api/blob/main/README.md#extending-inputtypecolor.
As a developer, it would be kind of nice to only have one method
to keep in my head - did you consider aligning the method name w/
the EyeDropper API? (Also, if we did decide there was a use case
for <select>,
open() would be less awkward than HTMLSelectElement.showPicker).
later,
Mike
Domenic Denicola
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Mike Taylor
These seem like good discussions to have on the spec thread, instead of a Blink-specific mailing list :).
Sure, I guess I don't feel strongly about the venue - but
re-posted at
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6909#issuecomment-964292294.