LGTM3

On Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 2:14:04 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:

> LGTM2; thanks for shipping this with high quality!
>
> On Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 1:56:34 PM UTC-7 Chris Harrelson wrote:
>
>> LGTM1
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 2:47 PM 'Sam Davis Omekara' via blink-dev <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Philip,
>>>
>>> Thanks for reviewing. All the failing tests are understood. Here’s a 
>>> breakdown of the issues:
>>>
>>>    - Insets ink overflow tests (6):
>>>       - grid-gap-decorations-091.html, grid-gap-decorations-092.html, 
>>>       flex-gap-decorations-066.html, flex-gap-decorations-067.html, 
>>>       multicol-gap-decorations-038.html, multicol-gap-decorations-039.html  
>>>       - The change was made last Friday, and the wpt runner is not 
>>>       running the latest Chrome Canary version hence the reason why these 
>>> are 
>>>       failing
>>>    - Minor fragmentation issues (3):
>>>       - flex-gap-decorations-fragmentation-005.html, 
>>>       flex-gap-decorations-fragmentation-006.html, 
>>>       multicol-gap-decorations-007.html
>>>       - These issues are well-understood, and we don't consider them 
>>>       feature blocking, but we have work in progress to address them.
>>>    
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 2:36:19 AM UTC-7 Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> It's great to see this highly requested feature completed! The test 
>>>> suite 
>>>> <https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-gaps?label=experimental&label=master&aligned>
>>>>  
>>>> looks quite big in terms of number of tests, and tests across layout 
>>>> models, but there are 9 failing tests 
>>>> <https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-gaps?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=chrome%3A%21ok%20chrome%3A%21pass>.
>>>>  
>>>> Are the reasons for these failures understood? It it feasible to fix them 
>>>> all?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Philip
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM 'Sam Davis Omekara' via blink-dev <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> *Contact emails*
>>>>> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], 
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>
>>>>> *Explainer*
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/CSSGapDecorations/explainer.md
>>>>>
>>>>> *Specification*
>>>>> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-gaps-1
>>>>>
>>>>> *Summary*
>>>>> CSS Gap Decorations enables styling of gaps in container layouts like 
>>>>> Grid and Flexbox, similar to ‘column-rule’ in multicol layout. This 
>>>>> feature 
>>>>> is highly requested by web authors who must use hacks to style the gaps 
>>>>> in 
>>>>> Grid and Flexbox layouts today.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Blink component*
>>>>> Blink>Layout 
>>>>> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ELayout%22>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Web Feature ID*
>>>>> gap-decorations <https://webstatus.dev/features/gap-decorations>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Motivation*
>>>>> Today, web authors rely on non-ergonomic workarounds such as the 
>>>>> following examples to apply styles to the gaps in Grid and Flexbox 
>>>>> layouts: 
>>>>> https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/09/css-grid-gotchas-stumbling-blocks/#how-do-i-add-backgrounds-and-borders-to-grid-areas
>>>>>  https://x.com/geddski/status/1004731709764534274 CSS Gap Decorations 
>>>>> will allow authors to avoid such workarounds and apply styles in a 
>>>>> seamless 
>>>>> manner provided by the platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Initial public proposal*
>>>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10393
>>>>>
>>>>> *Search tags*
>>>>> grid <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:grid>, flexbox 
>>>>> <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:flexbox>, multicol 
>>>>> <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:multicol>, column 
>>>>> <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:column>, row 
>>>>> <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:row>, gap 
>>>>> <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:gap>, decoration 
>>>>> <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:decoration>
>>>>>
>>>>> *TAG review*
>>>>> https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1035
>>>>>
>>>>> *TAG review status*
>>>>> Issues addressed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Risks*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Interoperability and Compatibility*
>>>>> Gap Decorations is a highly requested feature among web developers. 
>>>>> Early discussions within the CSSWG meeting did not highlight any major 
>>>>> concerns from other browser vendors so far. See discussions on: 
>>>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10393
>>>>>
>>>>> *Gecko*: Positive (
>>>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1158)
>>>>>
>>>>> *WebKit*: No signal (
>>>>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/444)
>>>>>
>>>>> *Web developers*: Positive Developers are excited about the CSS Gap 
>>>>> Decoration feature. See discussions around this here: 
>>>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10393 
>>>>>
>>>>> This also surfaced as a most requested missing feature in State of CSS 
>>>>> 2023. https://2023.stateofcss.com/en-US/usage/#css_missing_features 
>>>>>
>>>>> The chromium tracking issue (
>>>>> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/357648037) has 18 upvotes from 
>>>>> developers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Following dev trials, the feature drew substantial enthusiasm across 
>>>>> web developer channels:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Social media:
>>>>>         - 
>>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-164-new-way-style-gaps-emiliano-pisu-x0h1f
>>>>>  
>>>>>         - https://mastodon.social/@anatudor/114201225562770826 
>>>>>         - 
>>>>> https://app.daily.dev/posts/a-new-way-to-style-gaps-in-css-9lolqu2yp 
>>>>>         - https://x.com/Manz/status/1968682837453799570 
>>>>>         - https://x.com/shadeed9/status/1822025452476592630
>>>>>          - 
>>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kirangrandhi_goodbye-to-css-hackshello-to-native-gap-activity-7341108234121900034-_ObL
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>     Articles and videos:
>>>>>         - 
>>>>> https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/styling-the-gap-with-css 
>>>>>         - https://youtu.be/L1-7dFQFb1c 
>>>>>         - https://css-tricks.com/the-gap-strikes-back-now-stylable/ 
>>>>>         - https://heydesigner.com/newsletter/product-design-2025/
>>>>>
>>>>> *Other signals*:
>>>>>
>>>>> *WebView application risks*
>>>>> *Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such 
>>>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?*
>>>>> There are no WebView application risks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Debuggability*
>>>>> DevTools already provides a layout overlay for gaps in Grid and 
>>>>> Flexboxes. Computed values for new properties introduced for gap 
>>>>> decoration 
>>>>> will be exposed.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, 
>>>>> Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?*
>>>>> Yes
>>>>>
>>>>> *Is this feature fully tested by **web-platform-tests* 
>>>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>>>>> *?*
>>>>> Yes
>>>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-gaps
>>>>>
>>>>> *Flag name on about://flags*
>>>>> enable-experimental-web-platform-features
>>>>>
>>>>> *Finch feature name*
>>>>> CSSGapDecoration
>>>>>
>>>>> *Rollout plan*
>>>>> Will ship enabled for all users
>>>>>
>>>>> *Requires code in //chrome?*
>>>>> False
>>>>>
>>>>> *Tracking bug*
>>>>> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/357648037
>>>>>
>>>>> *Estimated milestones*
>>>>> Shipping on desktop
>>>>> 149
>>>>> DevTrial on desktop
>>>>> 139
>>>>> Shipping on Android
>>>>> 149
>>>>> Shipping on WebView
>>>>> 149
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Anticipated spec changes*
>>>>> *Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat 
>>>>> or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github 
>>>>> issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may 
>>>>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure 
>>>>> of 
>>>>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).*
>>>>> There are no open issues affecting the current level of the spec. All 
>>>>> open issues are scoped to a future level of the spec and do not introduce 
>>>>> web compat or interop risk for what is shipping now.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status*
>>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5157805733183488?gate=6254826279927808
>>>>>
>>>>> *Links to previous Intent discussions*
>>>>> Intent to Prototype: 
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/PH8PR00MB1471DB453B0D0025F83B1F06D8BA2%40PH8PR00MB1471.namprd00.prod.outlook.com
>>>>> Ready for Trial: 
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/vmO3X2aYL2Y/m/f9LLE_W8AAAJ
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