Add the referencetarget feature #3376
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There are a few open issues that still need to be worked through, tracked from WICG/webcomponents#1086. |
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| name: Reference target | |||
| description: The `referenceTarget` property of a `ShadowRoot` object forwards attributes such as `for` and `aria-labelledby` to elements inside a shadow DOM. This allows, for example, to link a `<label>` to its `<input>` even if the `<input>` is in the shadow DOM of a web component. | |||
| spec: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals/reference-target-explainer.md | |||
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Not sure if it's customary to link in-progress spec PRs for features in development, but if those are allowed here then these are the best spec links for the feature for now:
whatwg/html#10995
whatwg/dom#1353
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Fixes #2309.
This is a pretty pivotal feature for web components, as it allows to correctly map IDREF attributes to things inside the shadow DOM, without breaking encapsulation.
It's apparently been through an origin trial in Chromium, but I'm not sure what the plans are when it comes to shipping.
@dandclark can you share any plans on the above?
It's been proposed for Interop 26: web-platform-tests/interop#1011