Umfragen / State of HTML 2025
This survey closed on August 31, 2025.

1/11Forms

Form-related elements and attributes

  1. <datalist>
  2. input.showPicker()
  3. Customizable Select
  4. <input type="color">
  5. <input type="color" colorspace="display-p3">
  6. <input type="color" alpha>
  7. contenteditable="plaintext-only"
  8. Form Pain Points

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Method of providing a list of presets for a user to select in a form control, while still allowing custom options.

html 
<input name="country" list="countries">
<datalist id="countries">
  <option>Afghanistan</option>
  ...
</datalist>
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Programmatically open the picker of form controls that have one (color pickers, date inputs etc).

html 
<input id="dateInput" type="date">
<button onclick="dateInput.showPicker()">Select date</button>
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Stylable, customizable dropdown control. Previously <selectlist> and <selectmenu>.

css 
select,
::picker(select) {
  appearance: base-select;
}
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Creates a color picker from which users can choose a color value.

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Creates a color picker which allows the user to select a wide-gamut (P3) color.

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Creates a color picker which allows the user to select a semi-transparent color.

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Permits editing of the element's raw text, but not rich text formatting.

html 
<h2 class="title" contenteditable="plaintext-only"></h2>
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Think of the various form controls (e.g. <input>, <textarea>, <select>, <button> etc.), behaviors (e.g. validation, autocomplete), handling forms via JS, editing APIs (e.g. contentEditable) etc. Anything that bothers you is fair game — browser support, missing features, styling, etc.

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