Intent to Prototype: CSS caret-shape property

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

sche...@chromium.org, zs...@igalia.com

Explainer

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui/#caret-shape

Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui/#caret-shape

Summary

The shape of the caret in native applications is most commonly a vertical bar, an underscore or a rectangular block. In addition, the shape often varies depending on the input mode, such as insert or replace. The CSS caret-shape property allows sites to choose one of these shapes for the caret inside editable elements, or leave the choice up to the browser. The recognized property values are auto, bar, block and underscore.

Blink component

Blink>CSS

Motivation

To allow authors to specify the desired shape of the text insertion caret.

Initial public proposal

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui/#caret-shape

Search tags

caret-shape

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1211)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/484)

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?

None

Debuggability

None

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

No

Flag name on about://flags

None

Finch feature name

None

Non-finch justification

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/353713061

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/6106160780017664?gate=5139538158288896

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