This feature will make closed details elements searchable and automatically expand when the browser tries to scroll to their hidden contents in response to find-in-page, ScrollToTextFragment, and element fragment navigation.

Motivation

This feature will allow scroll to text links and element fragment links to become capable of targeting content inside of collapsed details elements by making the browser open them before scrolling to the desired content. It will also allow find-in-page to search through content inside collapsed details elements by expanding them before find-in-page scrolls to them, effectively making much more content in existing webpages searchable. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1058732 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1185950 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4051 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6466

Documentation

• https://github.com/WICG/display-locking/blob/main/explainers/auto-expanding-details-explainer.md
• https://github.com/WICG/display-locking/blob/main/privacy-assessments/auto-expanding-details-privacy.md

Specification

Specification link

Status: Unknown standards status - check spec link for status

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>HTML

Implementation status: In development (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: No signals

Owner

• jarhar@chromium.org

Last updated on 2022-04-27