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Retargeting result of elementFromPoint and elementsFromPoint

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 66)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Previously elementFromPoint and elementsFromPoint are not per spec, and it may return null incorrectly because it is not retargeting the result correctly. We are fixing it to adhere to the spec by applying the correct retargeting algorithm.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/#extensions-to-the-documentorshadowroot-mixin
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=759947

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