Intent to Ship: Pseudo target on events

[Daniil Sakhapov]

Contact emails

sakh...@chromium.org

Explainer

Please note, that  the spec edit has been mostly approved and finalized, but put on hold due to a major spec repo refactoring. But I don't think it should stop from shipping, since ideally it would be shipped together with CSSPseudoElement interface in M147.

Specification

https://github.com/w3c/uievents/pull/413/changes

Summary

Specific events are now extended to have `.pseudoTarget` that is either CSSPseudoElement (if interaction has been with pseudo-element) or null. This allows to have more specific information on the event origin, e.g. that not just an ultimate originating element (Event.target) has been clicked, but more specifically that it was ::after. Note that the Event.target is unchanged so event only has extra info on pseudo-element interaction. The events are UIEvent, AnimationEvent, TransitionEvent. mouseover, mouseout, mouseenter, mouseleave and their pointer* counterparts are not yet supported.

Blink component

Blink>CSS

TAG review

No information provided

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1345)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/607)

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/css/css-pseudo/events-on-pseudo-element-mutation.tentative.html http://wpt.fyi/css/css-pseudo/events-on-pseudo-element.tentative.html

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40639103

Estimated milestones

Shipping on desktop	147
Shipping on Android	147
Shipping on WebView	147

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5179328935624704?gate=6529265912905728

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.

[Vladimir Levin]

I believe this depends on CSSPseudoElement from this feature: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5194399398756352

In the CSSPseudoElement, you noted that this is currently only for `::after` `::before` and `::marker`. Does this intent (pseudoTarget) also have similar limitations? In other words, if I have an animation on `::view-transition-group(*)`, for example, and I observe an AnimationEvent, will `pseudoTarget` be null?

Also a similar comment about developer need as the other intent: is it possible to put together a brief explainer (it could be one explainer for both intents) that captures the value of this feature?

Thanks!

Vlad

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