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Revise input-color-alpha name and description #3377

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Revise `input-color-alpha` name and description
ddbeck Sep 24, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into fix-input-alpha
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions features/input-color-alpha.yml
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name: "`alpha` and `colorspace` attributes for `<input type=color>`"
description: The ability to control the opacity of a color picked using `<input type="color">` and determine the colorspace of the selected color.
name: >
alpha and colorspace attributes for <input type="color">
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For consistency with features like https://web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features-explorer/features/input-number/ or https://web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features-explorer/features/dialog-closedby/, maybe we should rename this to:

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name: >
alpha and colorspace attributes for <input type="color">
name: <input type="color" alpha> and <input type="color" colorspace>

description: The `alpha` and `colorspace` attributes for the `<input type="color">` HTML element are hints to the browser to show controls for transparency or to limit color selection to a color space.
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The attributes aren't just non-normative hints, as this description suggests. If you set the alpha attribute then the browser will serialize the color with opacity data. If you set the colorspace property then the browser will serialize the color in the format for the requested colorspace.

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How about this:

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description: The `alpha` and `colorspace` attributes for the `<input type="color">` HTML element are hints to the browser to show controls for transparency or to limit color selection to a color space.
description: The `alpha` and `colorspace` attributes for the `<input type="color">` HTML element show controls for transparency and color space color selection in the color picker interface. Additionally, they determine the format of the selected value.

spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input-alpha
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