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Prevent scrolling in HTMLElement.focus()

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 64)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Adds an optional argument to existing focus APIs that disable the scroll triggered by focus.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#focus-management-apis
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=734166

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