Intent to Ship: Use scroll-snap-type: pair to snap to a single element

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Explainer
https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/scroll-snap-type-pair

Specification
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scroll-snap-1

Summary
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9519 Add a "pair" keyword to scroll-snap-type. If used, when the container scroll snaps to an element on one axis, it should snap to the same element on the other axis. In the existing spec, the "both" keyword allows the scroll container to select snap targets in X and Y axes independently and snap to different targets.

Blink component
Blink>Scroll

Web Feature ID
scroll-snap

Motivation
See explainer

Initial public proposal
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9519

TAG review
https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1271

TAG review status
Pending

Goals for experimentation
None

Risks


Interoperability and Compatibility
No risk because this is a new feature.

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1448)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/716)

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?

No risks


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
https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=scroll-snap-type-pair

Flag name on about://flags
No information provided

Finch feature name
CSSScrollSnapTypePair

Rollout plan
Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?
False

Tracking bug
https://crbug.com/542706103

Estimated milestones
Shipping on desktop156
Shipping on Android156
Shipping on WebView156


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).

No information provided

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5124378896498688?gate=6676576856047616

Links to previous Intent discussions
Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/6a8754d6.0a50a06e.201ba6.08b5.GAE%40google.com


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Rick Byers

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Sep 23, 2026, 11:29:54 AMSep 23
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LGTM1

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Dan Clark

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Sep 23, 2026, 11:31:10 AMSep 23
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LGTM2

Chris Harrelson

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