What We Want

Here is a run-down of the 242 "wants" submitted as part of this program. Check 'em out and if there's something you want, send it in!

• I want the anchor element’s download attribute to work for cross-origin links that opt in via CORS

  Submitted by Brad Isbell

• I want native Markdown support in textarea elements

  Submitted by Christoph Päper

• I want a new HTML element for common, standardized system icons

  Submitted by Sam Henri-Gold

• I want an HTML attribute to force browsers to bypass cached assets for a page

  Submitted by Fish

• I want a native fade-in/fade-out attribute for HTML media elements

  Submitted by Sam Henri-Gold

• I want a “modal” boolean attribute on the dialog element

  Submitted by Jiyoung Joung

• I want a native HTML spoiler / content warning element

  Submitted by jimmy frasche

• I want to be able to specify a text snippet in a URL fragment to link directly to it

  Submitted by Raphael Louis Andress

• I want an HTML attribute to reset and isolate the heading hierarchy within a container element

  Submitted by Joppe Kroon

• I want to be able to paste into number and phone input fields on mobile

  Submitted by Fish

• I want advanced i18n features on the web platform

  Submitted by Denis TRUFFAUT

• I want an HTML attribute that hides an element visually while keeping it accessible to screen readers

  Submitted by Joppe Kroon

• I want browsers to support XSLT 2.0 and later versions

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a way to restrict a datalist-backed input to only its listed options

  Submitted by Zacky Ma

• I want to be able to easily adjust scrollbar width in browser and OS settings

  Submitted by Chelsea Augustine

• I want support for CSS Speech

  Submitted by Léonie Watson

• I want the web platform to make accessibility compliance easier to achieve

  Submitted by Brian Edwards

• I want to be able to customise the UI when embedding a PDF

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want browsers to provide a native API for GDPR consent

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want web apps to be able to control child same-origin realms

  Submitted by Gal Weizman

• I want a browser API to measure the time a user actively interacts with a site

  Submitted by Raphael Louis Andress

• I want a secure string type in JavaScript that can be reliably wiped from memory

  Submitted by castarco

• I want a JavaScript event that fires before the browser navigates to a new page

  Submitted by YanSH

• I want a liveness or “realness” check in the Face Detection API

  Submitted by Mohammad Sikandar Khan

• I want native XSLT 3.0 and interactive XSLT support in browsers

  Submitted by Martynas Jusevicius

• I want high-performance, error-tolerant downloads for very large files

  Submitted by Annette Greiner

• I want installed PWAs to support an always-on-top window mode

  Submitted by Nate Moore

• I want built-in end-to-end encryption in browsers integrated with FIDO and hardware security keys

  Submitted by Raphael Louis Andress

• I want a layout debugger in DevTools

  Submitted by Patrick Brosset

• I want DevTools to display event listener types as badges on elements in the Elements panel

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a tiny local web server in DevTools

  Submitted by Oliver Fink

• I want JavaScript error stack traces to be more helpful

  Submitted by Patrick Brosset

• I want console logging channels

  Submitted by Andreas Linnert

• I want an option to collapse CSS grid gaps when grid areas are empty

  Submitted by Nick Gard

• I want a CSS property to assign elements to explicit, absolute z-height layers

  Submitted by Andrew Trefethen

• I want media queries to be usable as selectors

  Submitted by Andreas Linnert

• I want CSS gradients to be directly animatable

  Submitted by Sam Henri-Gold

• I want longhand properties for every CSS shorthand

  Submitted by Cory Birdsong

• I want an option to invert the colors of any web page

  Submitted by Diego Martín Álvarez

• I want the devtools to throttle internet connection by different latency times as well

  Submitted by kronaemmanuel

• I want to be able to style fieldsets and legends independently

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want native country and language selects in HTML

  Submitted by crissov

• I want browsers to provide a more consistent user experience for the Web Share API

  Submitted by Arne Hassel

• I want upload hints for browsers to open appropriate system folders in the file picker

  Submitted by Tactile-Taco

• I want simple geofencing

  Submitted by Christoph Päper

• I want HTML to support Apache-style server-side includes natively

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want text to wrap around curved borders

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want browsers to extract and expose embedded captions from video container files

  Submitted by Farai Gandiya

• I want browsers to respect my system’s preferred date/time format

  Submitted by Nikhil Mehta

• I want a media query to detect whether the user has enabled “print background graphics” when printing

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to be able to listen to CSS selector state changes on elements, similarly to matchMedia

  Submitted by Guylian Cox

• I want to be able to listen to programmatic changes to HTMLInputElement.value

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a comprehensive scrolling API

  Submitted by ExtAnimal

• I want browsers to support AC3 audio with 5.1 surround sound passthrough and MKV containers

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want accurate timer and alarm APIs with system-level notifications

  Submitted by Grant Forrest

• I want the DevTools console to tell me when something happened

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want 2D matrix dropdown form inputs

  Submitted by Christoph Päper

• I want typed numeric input fields with units

  Submitted by Christoph Päper

• I want a browser API to automate print and save‑as‑PDF

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want access to the device’s phone number for verification in PWAs

  Submitted by Mohammad Sikandar Khan

• I want elements with the CSS “resize” property to have a ::handle pseudo element

  Submitted by Kilian Valkhof

• I want a token field element

  Submitted by Sam Henri-Gold

• To be able to chose the font and styling of the Code window.

  Submitted by Peter Brand

• I want to animate CSS transitions between pages

  Submitted by Anthony Ciccarello

• I want videos on the web to have an audio-only mode

  Submitted by Hidde de Vries

• I want dark mode applied to any website

  Submitted by Sai Teja Vadlapatla

• I want the browser to provide the equivalent of a JavaScript Promise but for HTML elements

  Submitted by Michael Keister

• I want some API to control document printing with orientation and size

  Submitted by Alexander Strelkov

• I want to clamp lines of text based on the dimensions of the box it’s in based on parent’s max‑height

  Submitted by Florian van der Wielen

• I want native CBOR Support

  Submitted by Brad Isbell

• I want inaccessibility promoted in the browser user interface

  Submitted by Martin Mengele

• I want better french typography support

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want to bring back HTML Import

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want to revive the CSS nav-index property, for tab order management in the age of Flexbox and Grid

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want HTTPS security on local devices (routers, cameras, printers, etc.)

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to disable idle/background throttling when using a CanvasCaptureMediaStream

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want Service Workers to always be available

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want local peer discovery, to enable local WebRTC connections

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want to bootstrap a WebRTC peer connection without a signalling server

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want an HTML element for displaying QR codes

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a better looking browser default styles

  Submitted by Rasmus Fløe

• I want to pin evaluation of a CSS custom property to the element it’s defined on

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want the ability for a web app to provide widgets

  Submitted by Dale Harvey

• I want a native implementation or API for skip links

  Submitted by Hugo Giraudel

• I want a permalink on each heading element

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want block nesting in CSS

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want my own media queries in browsers

  Submitted by Kilian Valkhof

• I want easy access to common namespace URIs

  Submitted by Thomas Wilburn

• I want the ability to choose the layout for my developer tools

  Submitted by Mahmud Ahmad

• I want landmark navigation to be implemented natively in the browsers

  Submitted by Carolyn MacLeod

• I want to position list item icons

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want srcset and sizes to relate to the container rather than the viewport

  Submitted by Bernard Nijenhuis

• I want to control the blurring curve of box-shadow using cubic bezier functions

  Submitted by Iain van der Wiel

• I want the ability to specify line-spacing instead of line‑height

  Submitted by ephys

• I want to feel safe displaying user-generated HTML

  Submitted by JJ Behrens

• I want to specify the value of a select directly (instead of through option)

  Submitted by Nikunj Bhatt

• I want Float.toFixed() to take an optional argument to choose the rounding function

  Submitted by Kilian Valkhof

• I want the ability to create a style-permeable shadowRoot

  Submitted by Peter Torpey

• I want a media query to detect when a device is running in “night mode”

  Submitted by Kilian Valkhof

• I want a screen brightness API

  Submitted by Ryan Hayes

• I want state-based pseudo-classes for media elements

  Submitted by Kilian Valkhof

• I want intrinsic typography

  Submitted by Scott Kellum

• I want browser “find” features to emit window events.

  Submitted by Paul Grenier

• I want a smart browser that is able to determine the sites coding errors are producing a failed end user experience

  Submitted by PRIVATE

• I want access to attr() within calc()

  Submitted by Radoslav Sharapanov

• I want browsers to stop cropping the focus ring

  Submitted by Radoslav Sharapanov

• I want fragmented layouts

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want multi-line truncation via CSS

  Submitted by Alexis Córdova

• I want browsers to handle privacy (and GDPR-related) configurations

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I would like better in browser optimization tools

  Submitted by Marko Sculec

• I want the ability to indicate not to throttle resources for tab when it goes in background

  Submitted by Yogesh Jadhav

• I want fieldsets to be un-styled by default

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to be able to reposition captions anywhere within a video

  Submitted by Robyn Girard-Sanders

• I want to know the size of a linked page before I click it

  Submitted by Patty Toland

• I want auto resizing text‑area

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want CSS to have access to font metrics

  Submitted by Christopher Kirk-Nielsen

• I want an overhaul of the Date object

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want an invisible mode in DevTools to prevent detection by malicious scripts

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want fail-over for resources

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want universal support for a modern image format

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want flexbox sizing to factor in the width of wrapped text

  Submitted by Daniel Tonon

• I want an intelligent UI/UX dev tool

  Submitted by Reuben Kihiu

• I want to be able to use condensed HTML syntax

  Submitted by Derek Koziol

• I want nested service workers

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want more accessible web components

  Submitted by Segun

• I want media optimization tools in browser DevTools

  Submitted by Bolaji Ayodeji

• I want the option to make the mouse wheel scroll horizontally

  Submitted by Franziska Bartsch

• I want select elements to be able to share their options

  Submitted by Glenn Linderman

• I want default browser styles with custom properties

  Submitted by Isaac Maddox

• I want to set dark and light mode on a per-site basis

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want logical property support in media queries

  Submitted by Elad Shechter

• I want a vertical-align property that aligns with the text middle

  Submitted by Tyler Sticka

• I want virtual keyboard related events

  Submitted by Steven Sullivan

• I want a way to visualize an intersectionObserver with DevTools

  Submitted by Anonymous

• Global keyboard shortcut event listeners

  Submitted by Andrew Loiacono

• I want horizontal scrollbars to be more obvious

  Submitted by Murad Azizov

• I want audio/ogg support in Media Source Extensions

  Submitted by AnthumChris

• I want native constraint validation messages to be translatable

  Submitted by Guylian Cox

• I want better styling for inputs and selects

  Submitted by Nils Lauk

• I want a way to mark up branching, meaningful sequences (like flowcharts)

  Submitted by Brennan Young

• I want a speech viewer for screen readers

  Submitted by Claudio Luis Vera

• I want web apps to be able to work in other contexts (like car displays)

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want fixed/sticky-aware anchoring

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to allow PWAs to be able to request permission to bypass the same-origin policy after install

  Submitted by David Barratt

• I want to enable extensions to run as PWAs

  Submitted by Sebastien Guillemot

• I want physics-based animations in CSS

  Submitted by beka mekvabishvili

• I want min and max CSS functions to work with auto

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a system calendar API

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want better, easier form fields

  Submitted by Eric Eggert

• I want browsers to automatically fix contrast issues

  Submitted by Eric Eggert

• I want SVGs in img elements to load external fonts

  Submitted by Eric Eggert

• I want to control “overscroll” on all elements

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want control over when specific elements are painted

  Submitted by Dzmitry Shymkin

• I want support for fractional pixel values

  Submitted by Dzmitry Shymkin

• I want a standard way to style scrollbars

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want web apps with elevated privileges to be vetted

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want JavaScript state management

  Submitted by Gary Valverde Hampton

• I want @keyframes to support seconds as indicator for a keyframe

  Submitted by Robert van der Elst

• I want web components to enable exposing elements to assistive technology and forms

  Submitted by Johan Westling

• I want CORS error reporting and HTTP error reporting.

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want full support for ICC profiles in CSS

  Submitted by Sebastian Friedrich

• I want a platform-independent text-shaping and rendering engine for fonts

  Submitted by Sebastian Friedrich

• I want to create additional “author” sub-origins in the cascade

  Submitted by Miriam Suzanne

• I want an “install” URL protocol

  Submitted by Michael Scharnagl

• I want the ability to flow content dynamically from one container to another using CSS

  Submitted by Morten Rand-Hendriksen

• I want to accessibly trigger a browsers loading behaviour in an SPA

  Submitted by Accessabilly

• I want improved behavior of browser emulators to match the interaction on mobile devices

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want CSS custom properties to work as value in all properties

  Submitted by Johan

• I want multi-line text-overflow property values in CSS

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want all new APIs to be supported in Web Workers (within reason)

  Submitted by Ashley Gullen

• I want text-transform: uppercase to be “capital sharp s” aware

  Submitted by Johannes Ammon

• I want better justification (text‑align)

  Submitted by Johannes Ammon

• I want to be able to apply styles to a “sticky” element when it’s stuck

  Submitted by Kalpesh Singh

• I want an easy way to revert an element to its original display setting

  Submitted by Tobias Buschor

• I want to be able to visually hide something without hiding it from assistive tech

  Submitted by Adam Norris

• I want performant width and height CSS transitions

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want hardware-acceleration on SVG transforms

  Submitted by Darin Senneff

• I want to be able to visually-isolate an element in DevTools

  Submitted by Karol Stefański

• I want insight into the impact of browser extensions on users performance

  Submitted by Artem Denysov

• I want MutationObserver to see changes via innerHTML

  Submitted by Christian "Schepp" Schaefer

• I want a Scroll Snap API

  Submitted by Christian "Schepp" Schaefer

• I want a source order viewer for rearranged content

  Submitted by Adrian Roselli

• I want a CSS pseudo-selector for elements that are in the viewport

  Submitted by Nick Gard

• I want to know how browser computes missing/derived CSS properties

  Submitted by Manikanta G

• I want native maps in the browser (and HTML)

  Submitted by Peter Rushforth & Nic Chan

• I want authenticated Web­Sockets

  Submitted by Adrian Hope-Bailie

• I want to be able to save/load debugger state

  Submitted by Maxim Tsoy

• I want browsers to localize data like dates and numbers

  Submitted by Koos Looijesteijn

• I want to add and remove tracks during a MediaRecorder session

  Submitted by guest271314

• I want a video Worklet or OfflineMediaContext

  Submitted by guest271314

• I want local speech recognition for Web Speech

  Submitted by guest271314

• I want a fully implemented and extensible SSML parser for Web Speech

  Submitted by guest271314

• I want advanced tools for debugging minified code

  Submitted by Maxim Tsoy

• I want semantic HTML sidenotes

  Submitted by Koos Looijesteijn

• I want to be able to switch the units displayed in the Developer Tools

  Submitted by Russell Heimlich

• I want to download an archive of web assets in a single request

  Submitted by Dan Gowans

• I want better HTML forms

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want new HTML input types

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want permission based access to locally installed fonts

  Submitted by Fahri Özkaramanlı

• I want validation of paired form fields

  Submitted by Ryan Olson

• I want declarative drag-and-drop sorting

  Submitted by Ryan Olson

• I want a standardized CAPTCHA

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to host content from my browser

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a tooltip API

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to control time

  Submitted by Tyler Larson

• I want the ad element

  Submitted by Adam Hindman

• I want tracking to be explicitly opt‑in

  Submitted by Mike Edmister

• I want CSS effects bound to scrolling

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to be able to control scrolling in tables

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to read pages without interruptions and slowdowns

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a web directory as a service

  Submitted by Todd Youngblood

• I don’t want the size of my screen to determine my experience

  Submitted by David Vasandani

• I want limited reactivity in the DOM/Web Components

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want a way to build desktop/mobile/web apps with one codebase and have it run everywhere

  Submitted by Andrew Shindyapin

• I want the 3D view from the old Firefox DevTools back

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to be able to pull a list of all custom properties on an element.

  Submitted by Jonathan

• I want better production error reporting

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want SVG to be fully styled from CSS

  Submitted by Thomas Wilburn

• I want an option for two handles in a range input

  Submitted by Robert van der Elst

• I want to animate height from 0 to auto

  Submitted by Nick Gard

• I want container queries

  Submitted by Dave Rupert, Benjamin Strauß, Marco Zampetti, and Segun

• I want tabs and accordion elements

  Submitted by Dave Rupert

• I want a simple API to stream the data for a file download in JavaScript

  Submitted by Erik Jensen

• I want hrefs in all elements

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want to be able to turn off position: fixed

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want efficient native anchor to field focus across browsers

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want SVG to seamlessly blend with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

  Submitted by Uli Troyo

• I want a simple way to “tag” web‑pages

  Submitted by Panu Viljamaa

• I want portal elements to update browser history

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want browsers to fix automatically fixable accessibility problems automatically

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want browsers to throw accessibility errors

  Submitted by Anonymous

• I want accessibility tools front & center

  Submitted by Charles Hall

• I want the ability to flip element scroll orientation (to create text message-like interfaces)

  Submitted by Alastair Coote

• I want media query support in video source elements

  Submitted by Alastair Coote

• I want a memory-efficient way to get video frame pixel data from MediaStream

  Submitted by David Sanders

• I want to reconsider how bluetooth fits into the web

  Submitted by Jen Looper

• I want code distributors to advertise which sandbox features I can safely restrict

  Submitted by Malvoz

• I want tools that assess the readability of web typography

  Submitted by Stephanie Stimac

• I want a standard API for event throttling and debouncing

  Submitted by Šime Vidas

• I want to be able to apply styles to parts of a web page without them leaking out

  Submitted by Martin Janecke

• I want the ability to send real tab signals during automated testing

  Submitted by Paul Grenier

• I want DevTools to help me discover media that needs subtitling or captions

  Submitted by Aaron G