The API provides a programmatic interface to the browser's credential manager. In short, an origin can request a user's credentials to sign them in, or can ask the browser to save credentials on the user's behalf. Both of these requests are user-mediated.
Documentation
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Credential_Management_API
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Credential
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CredentialsContainer
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FederatedCredential
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PasswordCredential
Specification
Specification currently under development in a Working Group
Status in Chromium
Blink>SecurityFeature>CredentialManagement
Enabled by default
(tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
- No signal
- In development
- Positive
Owner
Search tags
password, credential, passwords, credentials,Last updated on 2020-11-09