Post AsIcDIvrqCL5KuWWa8 by jensimmons@front-end.social
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 (DIR) Post #AsIcDIvrqCL5KuWWa8 by jensimmons@front-end.social
       2025-03-21T23:27:48Z
       
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       @nachtfunke Standards-first is truly important. People have had ideas of how form controls and their custom styling should work for THIRTY YEARS. There is no lack of ideas. What's been lacking is consensus on how to move forward. Anyone pushing a one-company / one-person agenda without true cross-browser, cross-working-group consensus is not going to break the three-decade old log jam.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJTunWtFhrKFpStg8 by jensimmons@front-end.social
       2025-03-21T22:00:56Z
       
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       There it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. It only took 30 years! First will be the chance to style the “in-page” controls (the part embedded in the webpage), plus the popover for <select> (the part that appears “over top of” the page). Later we’ll do popovers for more things — like the date picker, etc. Read about it here: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-forms/
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJTuvOg082gefgRzE by jensimmons@front-end.social
       2025-03-21T23:37:10Z
       
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       Some things to know:- This complements the work Open UI is doing (on popover, <select>, etc). It does not *compete*. They go together.- This CSS specification aims to let you style *all existing form controls*. We believe in creating a single comprehensive system for the entire thing all at once, not layering ideas on top of each other piecemeal, having to fix mistakes we just made.- We want feedback to make sure we get the whole plan right before any browser ships. Which will take time.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsJU7lY5vYXrsODDBA by dsm@clew.lol
       2025-03-22T12:53:17.650880Z
       
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       Wow, just in time for browsers to die.