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Resize Observer

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 64)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The Resize Observer API can be used to observe changes to size of Element's content rect.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://wicg.github.io/ResizeObserver/
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=612962

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/resizeobserver

Samples: https://ebidel.github.io/demos/dom_resize_events.html https://jsfiddle.net/atotic/mr47wt1a/

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