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Unprefixed ruby-position CSS property

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 84)

Intent stage

Evaluate readiness to ship

Summary

The 'ruby-position' CSS property controls the position of ruby annotation. It's the unprefixed version of the '-webkit-ruby-position' property. This property has three possible keywords: 'over', 'under', and 'inter-character'. For now, only the first two are being implemented. This change creates feature parity with Firefox.

Motivation

Firefox supports no '-webkit-ruby-position', but 'ruby-position'. Shipping 'ruby-position' improves browser interoperability and websites don't need to rely on the vendor-prefixed '-webkit-ruby-position'.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ruby/#rubypos
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal — Shipped prefixed '-webkit-ruby-position'
• Web developers: Positive — Multiple video vendors asked this feature.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=196690

Docs: N/A

Explainers: N/A

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