Intervention: Scroll Anchoring

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Browser Intervention (Chrome 56)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Scroll anchoring adjusts the scroll position to prevent visible jumps (or "reflows") when content changes above the viewport. Scroll anchoring introduces CSS "overflow-anchor" as an opt-out for developers.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/ScrollAnchoring/
Firefox: Positive
Safari: Positive
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=558575

Docs: https://github.com/WICG/ScrollAnchoring/blob/master/explainer.md

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