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CSS "overflow" media features

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 113)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

• Breaking change: No
• Enterprise impact: None
• Chromium flag: CSSOverflowMediaFeatures
• Spec maturity: Working draft
• Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/css/mediaqueries/overflow-media-features.html

Summary

Implements "overflow-inline" and "overflow-block" media features. Allows to distinguish styles for displays with different overflow characteristics.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/mediaqueries/#mf-overflow-block
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=790911

Ecosystem

• Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=css%2Fmediaqueries
• Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+CSS%20%22overflow%22%20media%20features
• MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=CSS%20%22overflow%22%20media%20features
• Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=CSS%20%22overflow%22%20media%20features

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