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Form-Associated Custom Elements: 40 Lines of Boilerplate Solved
Since 2023, web components can fully participate in native HTML forms via the ElementInternals API, now supported in Chromium, Firefox, and Safari 16+. However, each component requires about 40 lines of repetitive plumbing. A new open-source mixin, form-control-mixin, eliminates that boilerplate.
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The mixin is a practical time-saver for developers building form controls, but the real story is how far web components have come in closing the gap with native elements.
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