inert attribute

DOM

The inert attribute would allow web authors to mark parts of the DOM tree as inert: When a node is inert, then the user agent must act as if the node was absent for the purposes of targeting user interaction events, may ignore the node for the purposes of text search user interfaces (commonly known as "find in page"), and may prevent the user from selecting text in that node.

Demo

https://wicg.github.io/inert/demo/

Documentation

https://github.com/WICG/inert#tldr
https://discourse.wicg.io/t/inert-attribute/1838/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>HTML

Behind a flag (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 60
Chrome for Android release 60
Android WebView release 60

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: Positive
Edge: No signal
Safari: Positive
Web Developers: Positive

Owner

aboxhall@chromium.org

Last updated on 2020-09-11