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aria-help

Category
DOM
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Deprecated (Chrome 79)
Intent stage
Removed

Summary

Remove the aria-help attribute.

Motivation

aria-help was never part of the ARIA standard, but was inherited from Webkit. The purpose of aria-help is to provide additional information that complements the label text. This same behaviour can be achieved using aria-describedby, although this involves referencing another element. The feature has been re-proposed as/renamed to aria-hint. So far it has only been used for legacy reasons, so should be removed.

Standards & signals

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