Intent to Prototype: The ident() function

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Contact emails

and...@chromium.org

Explainer

None

Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-5/#ident

Summary

The ident() function may be used to construct CSS identifiers dynamically, e.g. the concatenation of a string part and an integer part.

Blink component

Blink>CSS

Motivation

Bramus explains the motivation in the original proposal: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9141 The ident() function is especially useful with the sibling-index() function, which is planned for M138.

Initial public proposal

None

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

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

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/6230159413477376?gate=5120363822055424

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