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'formdata' event

Category

Web Components

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 77)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

The 'formdata' event enables any objects to provide form data. It helps avoid creating <input type=hidden> representing application state, or making submittable custom elements.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/indices.html#event-formdata
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: Positive
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=825684

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JO8puctCSpW-ZYGU8lF-h4FWRIDQNDVexzHoOQ2iQmY/edit?usp=sharing

Explainers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JO8puctCSpW-ZYGU8lF-h4FWRIDQNDVexzHoOQ2iQmY/edit?usp=sharing

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