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2026-07-29 13:33
Building Form-Associated Custom Elements with ElementInternals
Web components have been able to fully participate in native HTML forms since 2023 — submit their value with FormData, trigger :invalid, reset alongside the <form>, the works. The API that makes it possible, ElementInternals, is now supported in Chromium, Firefox, and Safari 16+.
The catch: nobody tells you it's about 40 lines of repetitive plumbing per component. This post walks through wh...