CSSOM View Module

1. Background

Many of the features defined in this specification have been supported by browsers for a long period of time. The goal of this specification is to define these features in such a way that they can be implemented by all browsers in an interoperable manner. The specification also defines a some new features which allow for scroll customization.

2. Terminology

Terminology used in this specification is from DOM, CSSOM and HTML. [DOM] [CSSOM] [HTML]

An element body (which will be the body element) is potentially scrollable if all of the following conditions are true:

• body has an associated box.

• body’s parent element’s computed value of the overflow-x or overflow-y properties is neither visible nor clip.

• body’s computed value of the overflow-x or overflow-y properties is neither visible nor clip.

Note: A body element that is potentially scrollable might not have a scrolling box. For instance, it could have a used value of overflow being auto but not have its content overflowing its content area.

A scrolling box of a viewport or element has two overflow directions, which are the block-end and inline-end directions for that viewport or element. Note that the initial scroll position might not be aligned with the scrolling area origin depending on the content-distribution properties, see CSS Box Alignment 3 § 5.3 Alignment Overflow and Scroll Containers.

The term scrolling area refers to a box of a viewport or an element that has the following edges, depending on the viewport’s or element’s scrolling box’s overflow directions.

The origin of a scrolling area is the origin of the initial containing block if the scrolling area is a viewport, and otherwise the top left padding edge of the element when the element has its default scroll position. The x-coordinate increases rightwards, and the y-coordinate increases downwards.

The beginning edges of a particular set of edges of a box or element are the following edges:

If the overflow directions are rightward and downward

The top and left edges.

If the overflow directions are leftward and downward

The top and right edges.

If the overflow directions are leftward and upward

The bottom and right edges.

If the overflow directions are rightward and upward

The bottom and left edges.

The ending edges of a particular set of edges of a box or element are the following edges:

If the overflow directions are rightward and downward

The bottom and right edges.

If the overflow directions are leftward and downward

The bottom and left edges.

If the overflow directions are leftward and upward

The top and left edges.

If the overflow directions are rightward and upward

The top and right edges.

The visual viewport is a kind of viewport whose scrolling area is another viewport, called the layout viewport.

In addition to scrolling, the visual viewport may also apply a scale transform to its layout viewport. This transform is applied to the canvas of the layout viewport and does not affect its internal coordinate space.

Note: The scale transform of the visual viewport is often referred to as "pinch-zoom". Conceptually, this transform changes the size of the CSS reference pixel but changes the size of the layout viewport proportionally so that it does not cause reflow of the page’s contents.

The magnitude of the scale transform is known as the visual viewport’s scale factor.

The VisualViewport object has an associated document, which is a Document object. It is the associated document of the owner Window of VisualViewport. The layout viewport is the owner Window’s viewport.

For the purpose of the requirements in this specification, elements that have a computed value of the display property that is table-column or table-column-group must be considered to have an associated box (the column or column group, respectively).

The term SVG layout box refers to a box generated by an SVG element which does not correspond to a CSS-defined display type. (Such as the box generated by a rect element.)

The term transforms refers to SVG transforms and CSS transforms. [SVG11] [CSS-TRANSFORMS-1]

When a method or an attribute is said to call another method or attribute, the user agent must invoke its internal API for that attribute or method so that e.g. the author can’t change the behavior by overriding attributes or methods with custom properties or functions in ECMAScript.

Unless otherwise stated, all string comparisons use is.

2.1. CSS pixels

All coordinates and dimensions for the APIs defined in this specification are in CSS pixels, unless otherwise specified. [CSS-VALUES]

Note: This does not apply to e.g. matchMedia() as the units are explicitly given there.

2.2. Zooming

There are two kinds of zoom, page zoom which affects the size of the initial viewport, and the visual viewport scale factor which acts like a magnifying glass and does not affect the initial viewport or actual viewport. [CSS-DEVICE-ADAPT]

Note: The "scale factor" is often referred to as "pinch-zoom"; however, it can be affected through means other than pinch-zooming. e.g. The user agent may zooms in on a focused input element to make it legible.

2.3. Web-exposed screen information

User agents may choose to hide information about the screen of the output device, in order to protect the user’s privacy. In order to do so in a consistent manner across APIs, this specification defines the following terms, each having a width and a height, the origin being the top left corner, and the x- and y-coordinates increase rightwards and downwards, respectively.

The Web-exposed screen area is one of the following:

• The area of the output device, in CSS pixels.

• The area of the viewport, in CSS pixels.

The Web-exposed available screen area is one of the following:

• The available area of the rendering surface of the output device, in CSS pixels.

• The area of the output device, in CSS pixels.

• The area of the viewport, in CSS pixels.

3. Common Infrastructure

This specification depends on the WHATWG Infra standard. [INFRA]

3.1. Scrolling

Scroll is completed when the scroll position has no more pending updates or translations and the user has completed their gesture. Scroll position updates include smooth or instant mouse wheel scrolling, keyboard scrolling, scroll-snap events, or other APIs and gestures which cause the scroll position to update and possibly interpolate. User gestures like touch panning or trackpad scrolling aren’t complete until pointers or keys have released.

When a user agent is to perform a smooth scroll of a scrolling box box to position, it must update the scroll position of box in a user-agent-defined fashion over a user-agent-defined amount of time. When the scroll is completed, the scroll position of box must be position. The scroll can also be aborted, either by an algorithm or by the user.

When a user agent is to perform an instant scroll of a scrolling box box to position, it must update the scroll position of box to position.

To scroll to the beginning of the document for a document document, follow these steps:

1. Let viewport be the viewport that is associated with document.
2. Let position be the scroll position viewport would have by aligning the beginning edges of the scrolling area with the beginning edges of viewport.
3. If position is the same as viewport’s current scroll position, and viewport does not have an ongoing smooth scroll, abort these steps.
4. Perform a scroll of viewport to position, and document’s root element as the associated element, if there is one, or null otherwise.

Note: This algorithm is used when navigating to the #top fragment identifier, as defined in HTML. [HTML]

3.2. WebIDL values

When asked to normalize non-finite values for a value x, if x is one of the three special floating point literal values (Infinity, -Infinity or NaN), then x must be changed to the value 0. [WEBIDL]

4. Extensions to the Window Interface

enum ScrollBehavior { "auto", "instant", "smooth" };

dictionary ScrollOptions {
    ScrollBehavior behavior = "auto";
};
dictionary ScrollToOptions : ScrollOptions {
    unrestricted double left;
    unrestricted double top;
};

partial interface Window {
    [NewObject] MediaQueryList matchMedia(CSSOMString query);
    [SameObject, Replaceable] readonly attribute Screen screen;
    [SameObject, Replaceable] readonly attribute VisualViewport? visualViewport;

    // browsing context
    undefined moveTo(long x, long y);
    undefined moveBy(long x, long y);
    undefined resizeTo(long width, long height);
    undefined resizeBy(long x, long y);

    // viewport
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long innerWidth;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long innerHeight;

    // viewport scrolling
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute double scrollX;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute double pageXOffset;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute double scrollY;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute double pageYOffset;
    undefined scroll(optional ScrollToOptions options = {});
    undefined scroll(unrestricted double x, unrestricted double y);
    undefined scrollTo(optional ScrollToOptions options = {});
    undefined scrollTo(unrestricted double x, unrestricted double y);
    undefined scrollBy(optional ScrollToOptions options = {});
    undefined scrollBy(unrestricted double x, unrestricted double y);

    // client
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long screenX;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long screenLeft;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long screenY;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long screenTop;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long outerWidth;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute long outerHeight;
    [Replaceable] readonly attribute