27677 2014-12-19 19:46:04 +0000 Standardise "disabled" attribute on <link> elements 2018-06-28 23:23:43 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified PC All RESOLVED WORKSFORME P2 normal Unsorted 1 krinklemail ian d ian mike repuestosrenault000 zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 116565 0 krinklemail 2014-12-19 19:46:04 +0000 The attribute would be like a typical boolean attribute and would affect the initially used value of the "disabled" flag of a stylesheet.[1][2] [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#concept-css-style-sheet-disabled-flag [2] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#dom-stylesheet-disabled Documentation about the attribute at MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/link#attr-disabled > Note: While there is no disabled attribute in the HTML standard, there > is a disabled attribute on the HTMLLinkElement DOM object. > > The use of disabled as an HTML attribute is non-standard and only used b> y some browsers. Do not use it. 116780 1 zcorpan 2015-01-05 09:48:01 +0000 What's the use case? 117719 2 krinklemail 2015-02-06 05:55:02 +0000 The use case is the demo page of VisualEditor and OOjs UI (front-end libraries). They ship with two different themes, and also support LTR and RTL directions. As such the HTML page has 4 stylesheets specified. One loaded by default, and the others toggled via dynamic JavaScript-powered interfaces. They were originally authored and tested locally in Firefox without checking whether they were standardised or supported cross-browser. It naturally made sense for it to exist, but alas, they're non-standard and e.g. not implemented in Blink/Chromium. However Firefox did (which makes sense). Similar to the disabled attribute on HTML input elements. As work-around in our project we now do an overly complex abstraction where we add the stylesheets with javascript (thus often causing a flash of unstyled content due to the lack of a simple callback for stylesheets having been loaded). 117720 3 zcorpan 2015-02-06 08:02:17 +0000 What is the difference from alternative stylesheets? <link rel=stylesheet href=A title=A> <!-- enabled --> <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href=B title=B> <!-- disabled --> You can then toggle between them in JS with .disabled or with .enabledStyleSheetForSet(). http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#dom-document-enablestylesheetsforset 118293 4 ian 2015-03-04 19:26:34 +0000 If the use case is alternative style sheet sets, then yeah, the existing feature for alternative style sheet sets seems like the way to go. Alternatively, just don't put the <link> elements in the DOM until you need them.