Intent to Ship: Ship anchor-visible and anchor-valid, and deprecate the plural versions

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Mason Freed

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Sep 23, 2026, 5:13:16 PMSep 23
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Explainer
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Specification
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/#position-visibility

Summary
The CSSWG resolved to rename `anchors-valid` --> `anchor-valid` [1] and `anchors-visible` --> `anchor-visible` [2]. To accomplish this, we'll rename the properties to the singular variants, and add aliases from the plural versions to the singular versions. At a later date, we will remove the plural variants. This chromestatus is only about shipping the new versions, and deprecating the old ones (but not removing them).
[1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10201#issuecomment-4180411971 [2] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10201#issuecomment-4390233490

Blink component
Blink>CSS

Web Feature ID
anchor-positioning

Motivation
CSSWG resolved to rename, and to maintain baseline status for anchor positioning, Chrome needs to ship the new names.

Initial public proposal
No information provided

Search tags
position-visibility, anchor-visible, anchor-valid

TAG review
N/A

TAG review status
Not applicable

Goals for experimentation
None

Risks


Interoperability and Compatibility
Since this is the shipment of new names, and not the removal of the old names, there should be no compat risk. Shipping the new names improves interop.

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: Shipped/Shipping

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

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Debuggability
No information provided

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Yes

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
Yes


Flag name on about://flags
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Finch feature name
PositionVisibilitySingularValues

Rollout plan
Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?
False

Tracking bug
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/526682332

Estimated milestones
Shipping on desktop157
DevTrial on desktop157
Shipping on Android157
DevTrial on Android157
Shipping on WebView157


Anticipated spec changes

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way).

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Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5136123851571200?gate=6099968887750656

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Chris Harrelson

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Sep 23, 2026, 5:31:10 PMSep 23
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LGTM1

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Mike Taylor

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Sep 23, 2026, 8:08:44 PMSep 23
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