1998668 - Ship showPicker support for datalist

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Forms, task)

Description

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

The datalist support is implemented in bug 1767228, but we are going to hold off on shipping it to release due to the accessibility concern (bug 1998661). This bug is filed to track shipping datalist support on all channel.

Comment 1

[Dianna Smith [:diannaS]]

Release Note Request
[Why is this notable]: Expansion of a HTML/DOM feature
[Affects Firefox for Android]: No, because of Bug 1535985
[Suggested wording]: showPicker() now supports text-based <input> elements with an associated <datalist>, displaying the autofill dropdown.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement/showPicker#showpicker_for_a_datalist_input

Comment 2

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Attachment: Bug 1998668 - Enable showPicker() support for datalist by default; r?vhilla

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/3be1c59d7636
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/c8fa6b0fc3c9
Enable showPicker() support for datalist by default; r=vhilla

Comment 4

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c8fa6b0fc3c9

Comment 5

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Note that bug 1998661 got backed out again, so it's critical we make sure it gets landed again successfully before this pref flip rides the trains. I don't anticipate that will be a problem, just important to note for tracking purposes.

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Note added to our Nightly 149 release notes with this wording:

showPicker() now supports text-based <input> elements with an associated <datalist>, displaying the autofill dropdown. See documentation.

I am keeping the relnote-firefox? flag open until we ship and include that in the final notes.

Comment 7

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

(In reply to James Teh [:Jamie] from comment #5)

Note that bug 1998661 got backed out again, so it's critical we make sure it gets landed again successfully before this pref flip rides the trains.

Yes, I am working on landing it again.

Comment 8

[Hamish Willee]

FF149 MDN docs work for this can be tracked in https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/43201