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hrefTranslate attribute

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 81)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

• Breaking change: No
• Enterprise impact: None
• Spec maturity: Working draft
• Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: Not testable in WPT due it being a Browser UI feature.

Summary

This attribute defines the ability to for a page author to hint to the user agent's translation engine that an href should be translated if followed.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3870
• Firefox: No signal — Client side translation not supported
• Safari: No signal — Client side translation not supported
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/872777

Ecosystem

• Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=hreftranslate-attribute
• Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
• chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+hrefTranslate%20attribute
• MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=hrefTranslate%20attribute
• Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=hrefTranslate%20attribute

Docs: https://github.com/dtapuska/html-translate

Explainers: https://github.com/dtapuska/html-translate

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