1655431 - Add a web-exposed way to style/remove the clear icon on <input type="search">

Status: NEW

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, task)

Description

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

Some ideas were:

1. appearance: none/appearance: textfield to hide the clear button
2. exposing a standard pseudo or the webkit exposed one to change the clear button image

They both aren't too hard to implement, just depends on what the decision here is.

I think 1. has the merit of being simple and not exposing too many implementation details, while 2. has the merit of not encouraging web authors to hide the default clear button and re-implementing their own (though I guess people already used to do this for webkit/blink because the clear button isn't a thing for gecko yet).

Comment 1

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

See: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5365