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Unprefixed 'appearance' CSS property

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 84)

Intent stage

Evaluate readiness to ship

Summary

This feature introduces 'appearance' CSS property, which is the unprefixed version of '-webkit-appearance'.

Motivation

Developers should avoid vendor-prefixed CSS properties, but Chrome have never provided unprefixed version of '-webkit-appearance'.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui-4/#appearance-switching
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=963551

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/178JUQ6Nx0VnXPeDu_Y_rGDAF-6ZymvmQCa6xJa-13gk/edit?usp=sharing

Explainers: N/A

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