Reference Target

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Specification

(No spec yet).

Description

Reference Target is a feature to enable using IDREF attributes such as for and aria-labelledby to refer to elements inside a component's shadow DOM, while maintaining encapsulation of the internal details of the shadow DOM.

Documentation

https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals/reference-target-explainer.md

Note: I'm filing this issue as a placeholder, but it's still possible that the name "Reference Target" could change.

Browser support

• Prototyped in Blink.
• Reference Target for Cross-Root ARIA mozilla/standards-positions#1035
• Reference Target for Cross-Root ARIA WebKit/standards-positions#356