1854112 - Add showPicker method to <select> elements

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Luke Warlow]

Steps to reproduce:

The showPicker() method is a new addition to HTMLSelectElement which addresses a common request from web developers: programmatically showing the options picker. This is a natural progression from the <input> showPicker() method

<select id="select">
...
</select>
<button onclick="select.showPicker()">Show the options picker</button>

WHATWG Spec PR: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9754

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Core & HTML' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Luke Warlow]

See https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/886 for standards position issue

Comment 3

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

Attachment: Bug 1854112 - Add showPicker method to <select> elements. r?emilio

Comment 4

[Luke Warlow]

WPT sync bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1856097

Comment 5

[Luke Warlow]

Just as an fyi I've also done the mdn work for this

https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/pull/20852

https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/29406

Assuming the spec PR gets merged I'll mark those as a ready and I'm currently aiming for a Chrome 121 shipping target for it.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

There is an r+ patch which didn't land and no activity in this bug for 2 weeks.
:evilpie, could you have a look please?
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Comment 7

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

The PR is still not merged, not sure if we want to land it before that.

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/96f778853da7
Add showPicker method to <select> elements. r=emilio

Comment 9

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/96f778853da7

Comment 10

[(PTO May 7-12) Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Did you want to nominate this for the Fx121 relnotes?

Comment 11

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

Attachment: Bug 1854112 - Make HTMLSelectElement showPicker method Nightly-only. r?emilio

When I landed this initially, it looked to me like the spec PR was about to land, but now there is an ongoing discussion about the behavior in uncomposed documents and even concerns with the previous <input> showPicker method.

Depends on D192711

Comment 12

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

Thanks for the reminder, I am just about to make this method Nightly-only, so we won't need that.

Comment 13

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/a2534d8717d7
Make HTMLSelectElement showPicker method Nightly-only. r=emilio

Comment 14

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a2534d8717d7

Comment 15

[Luke Warlow]

Fyi the HTML spec PR just got merged. Happy to make a follow up issue to mark as stable if that's prefered.

Comment 16

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

(In reply to Luke from comment #15)

Fyi the HTML spec PR just got merged. Happy to make a follow up issue to mark as stable if that's prefered.

Yes, please. Thank you.

Comment 17

[Hamish Willee]

FYI MDN Docs work for this can be tracked on https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/30336. Very little needed since @Luke did all the work :-). Just addition to experimental features, and some review comments. I'm marking as dev-doc-complete as it's pretty much done.