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HTML `focusgroup`

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focus-area-proposal
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Description

Description

Explainer: https://open-ui.org/components/scoped-focusgroup.explainer/

focusgroup is a proposed HTML attribute that replaces the hand-rolled "roving tabindex" logic every UI library reimplements for toolbars, tabs, menus, listboxes, and radiogroups. Adding something like focusgroup="toolbar wrap" to a container gives its children directional (e.g. arrow key) navigation between items, a single guaranteed tab stop, and memory of the last-focused item, without JavaScript (selection state remains the author's responsibility).

Support for focusgroup landed in Chrome 150.

Specification

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11723

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focusgroup

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Start with the linked Open UI explainer, WHATWG specification pull request, and WPT focusgroup directory. The issue does not name a repository file, test command, or concrete change, so first determine the expected Interop work and define which focusgroup coverage or project entry would constitute completion.

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Tech stack
html
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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