Intent to Ship: CSS scroll-marker-group modes

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

sakh...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://gist.github.com/danielsakhapov/aa8e744701224994609aebb3e9e316e3

Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-5/#scroll-marker-modes

Summary

The scroll-marker-group property is enhaced to support modes: 1) 'links' - The generated ::scroll-marker-group operates in "links" mode, functioning like a navigation list. This is the default mode if omitted. 2) 'tabs' - The generated ::scroll-marker-group operates in "tabs" mode, functioning like a tablist. Each mode changes focus order and accessibility behavior of ::scroll-marker-group and ::scroll-markers, following WAI-ARIA patterns. More details: # The links mode (default) This mode is designed to mimic standard Navigation Landmarks combined with fragment anchors. ## Semantic roles The ::scroll-marker-group takes on the navigation role, and the ::scroll-marker elements take on the link role. This perfectly maps to the <nav> + <a> structural pattern. ## Keyboard navigation All ::scroll-marker elements are sequential tab stops, natively acting like a list of standard anchor links. ## Unaffected targets The originating elements do not get forced into any role, leaving the document's natural semantic structure intact. ## Activation focus management When a link marker is activated, it sets the sequential focus navigation starting point to the target element (the originating element), and focus is lost from the marker. This mimics the native behavior of clicking a standard internal <a href="#target"> link. # The tabs mode This mode is designed to natively replicate the Tabs Pattern and serves as the interactive foundation for the Tabbed Carousel Pattern. ## Semantic roles The ::scroll-marker-group is implicitly assigned the tablist role, ::scroll-marker elements act as tab roles, and their originating elements get the tabpanel role. This mirrors the required WAI-ARIA Tabs structure. ## Keyboard navigation (roving tabindex) It follows the complex keyboard interactions outlined in standard practices. Only the active ::scroll-marker acts as a tab stop. Users use arrow keys to navigate the focusgroup (switching between markers), preventing the "tab trap" of having to tab through 20 carousel dots. ## Focus scope management The marker acts as a focus navigation scope owner. Pressing Tab from the active marker moves focus directly into the active tabpanel content, matching the specification for tabbed interfaces. ## Tree pruning Content from inactive tabs is explicitly hidden from the accessibility tree. This mimics the expected behavior of aria-hidden="true" or inert on inactive tab panels, saving developers from manually scripting state changes. ## Activation focus When a marker is activated, focus is retained on the marker, which is exactly how standard tabs operate.

Blink component

Blink>CSS

Web Feature ID

Missing feature

Motivation

No information provided

Initial public proposal

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TAG review

No information provided

TAG review status

Not applicable

Goals for experimentation

None

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No information provided

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1161)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/447)

Web developers: No signals

Other signals: https://github.com/w3c/css-aam/issues/18

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 information provided

Debuggability

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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-overflow/scroll-markers

Flag name on about://flags

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Finch feature name

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Non-finch justification

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Rollout plan

Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

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/5109685301673984?gate=6191471012216832

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[Daniel Clark]

It’s stated here that “links” mode will be the default, but when I experiment with the example at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/scroll-marker-group it looks like “tab” mode is the scroll-marker-group behavior that’s shipped in Chromium today. Changing this will cause a difference in behavior for sites that already use scroll-marker-group without specifying the mode, e.g. sites will see the single tab stop on a scroll-marker-group become multiple tab stops. Is this compatibility risk something you’ve considered?

 

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

> Yes
> https://wpt.fyi/css/css-overflow/scroll-markers

This looks like test coverage for the broader scroll-marker-group feature, but is there coverage for the new functionality being proposed here? The only of these tests with “mode”, “link”, or “tab” in the name are already passing in Chrome Stable.

 

> Web developers: No signals

 

It would be better if we could point to some evidence of developer interest. Who is asking for this feature?

 

> TAG review status

Not applicable

Can you say why TAG review isn’t applicable?

 

> Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1161)
> WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/447)

 

I think it’s reasonable to reuse the Gecko and WebKit signals for carousel, but it’d be nice to post an update to those threads mentioning that you intend to ship this additional behavior.

 

Lastly, please request the other reviews in Chromestatus (Privacy, WP security, etc).

 

Thanks,

Dan

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