CSS highlight processing model

This patch implements the inheritance-based propagation for highlight
pseudo-elements, as described in css-pseudo’s #highlight-cascade and
introduced in w3c/csswg-drafts#2474.

Highlight pseudos like ::selection were historically implemented such
that only the ::selection selector (*::selection) worked intuitively.
The spec’s processing model essentially makes it possible to define
both general ::selection styles and more specific ::selection styles.

We add a feature (HighlightInheritance) and a new computed style extra
field of type scoped_refptr<StyleHighlightData>, which in turn points
to four refcounted ComputedStyle instances, one for each highlight.
Only a handful of properties are applicable, but reusing ComputedStyle
like this simplifies the applying code, and allows us to share many of
the field groups between instances anyway.

We update the initial style singleton to point to a set of four empty
highlight styles, which we only use when the feature is enabled.

When the feature is disabled (or resolving custom ::highlight styles),
there is no functional change. Highlight styles are lazily computed on
paint’s demand, inherit only from the originating element styles, and
we store the result in the Element’s pseudo cache (StyleCachedData).

When the feature is enabled, we compute highlight styles during the
originating element’s recalc (RecalcOwnStyle), skipping any highlight
pseudos that the element had no matching rules for (a question that
can already be answered thanks to pseudo bits).

Style resolution is largely unchanged: we start with default styles,
then use output of the cascade to change those styles. But defaulting
is much easier for highlight styles: all properties are inherited, so
we can simply clone the whole ComputedStyle.

Relevant test page and screenshots:

• https://bucket.daz.cat/work/igalia/0/8.htmlhttps://bucket.daz.cat/4f37833aa15299a5.png (before)
• https://bucket.daz.cat/67d2abdd9bcda17c.png (after)

WPT already has some tests (css/css-pseudo/cascade-highlight-*), but
more thorough test coverage will land in these patches:

• https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/30688https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/30692

Bug: 1024156
Change-Id: I1f54f36ef2ac80165261a3f80d3a21cdf359c199
Cq-Do-Not-Cancel-Tryjobs: true
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/2850068
Reviewed-by: Anders Hartvoll Ruud <andruud@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mason Freed <masonf@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Delan Azabani <dazabani@igalia.com>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#923485}
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README.md

The web-platform-tests Project

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The web-platform-tests Project is a cross-browser test suite for the Web-platform stack. Writing tests in a way that allows them to be run in all browsers gives browser projects confidence that they are shipping software that is compatible with other implementations, and that later implementations will be compatible with their implementations. This in turn gives Web authors/developers confidence that they can actually rely on the Web platform to deliver on the promise of working across browsers and devices without needing extra layers of abstraction to paper over the gaps left by specification editors and implementors.

The most important sources of information and activity are:

  • github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt: the canonical location of the project's source code revision history and the discussion forum for changes to the code
  • web-platform-tests.org: the documentation website; details how to set up the project, how to write tests, how to give and receive peer review, how to serve as an administrator, and more
  • wpt.live: a public deployment of the test suite, allowing anyone to run the tests by visiting from an Internet-enabled browser of their choice
  • wpt.fyi: an archive of test results collected from an array of web browsers on a regular basis
  • Real-time chat room: the wpt:matrix.org matrix channel; includes participants located around the world, but busiest during the European working day.
  • Mailing list: a public and low-traffic discussion list
  • RFCs: a repo for requesting comments on substantial changes that would impact other stakeholders or users; people who work on WPT infra are encouraged to watch the repo.

If you'd like clarification about anything, don't hesitate to ask in the chat room or on the mailing list.

Setting Up the Repo

Clone or otherwise get https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.

Note: because of the frequent creation and deletion of branches in this repo, it is recommended to “prune” stale branches when fetching updates, i.e. use git pull --prune (or git fetch -p && git merge).

Running the Tests

See the documentation website and in particular the system setup for running tests locally.

Command Line Tools

The wpt command provides a frontend to a variety of tools for working with and running web-platform-tests. Some of the most useful commands are:

  • wpt serve - For starting the wpt http server
  • wpt run - For running tests in a browser
  • wpt lint - For running the lint against all tests
  • wpt manifest - For updating or generating a MANIFEST.json test manifest
  • wpt install - For installing the latest release of a browser or webdriver server on the local machine.
  • wpt serve-wave - For starting the wpt http server and the WAVE test runner. For more details on how to use the WAVE test runner see the documentation.

Windows Notes

On Windows wpt commands must be prefixed with python or the path to the python binary (if python is not in your %PATH%).

python wpt [command]

Alternatively, you may also use Bash on Ubuntu on Windows in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update build, then access your windows partition from there to launch wpt commands.

Please make sure git and your text editor do not automatically convert line endings, as it will cause lint errors. For git, please set git config core.autocrlf false in your working tree.

Publication

The master branch is automatically synced to wpt.live and w3c-test.org.

Contributing

Save the Web, Write Some Tests!

Absolutely everyone is welcome to contribute to test development. No test is too small or too simple, especially if it corresponds to something for which you've noted an interoperability bug in a browser.

The way to contribute is just as usual:

  • Fork this repository (and make sure you're still relatively in sync with it if you forked a while ago).
  • Create a branch for your changes: git checkout -b topic.
  • Make your changes.
  • Run ./wpt lint as described above.
  • Commit locally and push that to your repo.
  • Create a pull request based on the above.

Issues with web-platform-tests

If you spot an issue with a test and are not comfortable providing a pull request per above to fix it, please file a new issue. Thank you!