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Inert URL Bar

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 56)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Hiding and Showing the URL bar will no longer resize the initial containing block or elements sized with vh units. This matches iOS Safari.

Standards & signals

• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/428132

Docs: https://github.com/bokand/URLBarSizing

Samples: http://bokand.github.io/demo/urlbarsize.html

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