1709790 - Add support for element.outerText

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

There is a discussion on adding outerText to the html spec.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6653/files/511057620a418bb3249ea6ae49bf5a420e8699ae

In addition to textContent in the past we added for compat reasons innerText (Bug 264412 ).
https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/5

outerText is being used in the wild, but I don't remember from the top of my head any compat issues related to it. I will dig.

Currently if I'm not mistaken, Chrome returns innerText for outerText.
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/blink/renderer/core/dom/element.cc;l=4727-4734;drc=be6676e3f9f897ae9c9d14fd890a95d0a54a834a

Comment 1

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

innerText and outerText setters have different steps in Chromium.

https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#HTMLElementInnerText 31.65%
https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/213

https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#HTMLElementOuterText 0.38%
https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/214

Comment 2

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Attachment: Bug 1709790 - Implement HTMLElement.outerText. r=smaug

Comment 3

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Attachment: Bug 1709790 - Remove no longer needed intervention. r=#webcompat-reviewers

Depends on D136240

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/3d133626b40c
Implement HTMLElement.outerText. r=smaug
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d220aefbd9c9
Remove no longer needed intervention. r=webcompat-reviewers,denschub

Comment 5

[Web Platform Test Sync Bot (Matrix: #interop:mozilla.org)]

Created web-platform-tests PR https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/32451 for changes under testing/web-platform/tests

Comment 6

[Marian-Vasile Laza]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3d133626b40c
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d220aefbd9c9

Comment 7

[Web Platform Test Sync Bot (Matrix: #interop:mozilla.org)]

Upstream PR merged by moz-wptsync-bot

Comment 8

[Hamish Willee]

FF98 docs and compatibility updates for this can be tracked in https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/12576#issuecomment-1032211070 (work awaiting review)