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Import Text (Text Modules)

Category

JavaScript

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Proposed (Chrome Proposed)

Intent stage

None

Summary

A TC39 proposal to add module `import … with { type: "text" }` statements to JavaScript. The import attribute loads text data as a string value.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://tc39.es/proposal-import-text
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/494350643

Explainers: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-import-text https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11933 https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-csp/pull/794

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