api.HTMLInputElement.webkitdirectory - Supported on latest Chrome (technically)

[danielhjacobs]

What type of issue is this?

Incorrect support data (example: BrowserX says "86" but support was added in "40")

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

Technically, Chrome on Android now supports <input type="file" webkitdirectory>. However, of very important note is that selecting the folder unconditionally crashes the browser. That is being fixed by https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/5982392 and I would suggest not updating the support data until that code change is released.

What browsers does this problem apply to, if applicable?

Chromium (Chrome, Edge 79+, Opera, Samsung Internet)

What did you expect to see?

Support on latest Chrome.

Did you test this? If so, how?

Yes, used the example on this page on Chrome on Android and was able to select a folder.

Can you link to any release notes, bugs, pull requests, or MDN pages related to this?

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40101963
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40248532
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/376834374

Do you have anything more you want to share?

Related: #24847

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement/webkitdirectory

MDN metadata

MDN page report details

• Query: api.HTMLInputElement.webkitdirectory
• Report started: 2024-11-04T14:43:01.681Z

[danielhjacobs]

The fix for https://issues.chromium.org/issues/376834374 was released, but this is still crashing my Android phone as there has not yet been an Android update for Chrome containing a fix.

[danielhjacobs]

Tested on Chrome Canary on my Android phone, this is "working" but it's using content-URIs. I opened https://issues.chromium.org/issues/377716464 and there are pending code changes to fix that by updating the file-enumerating code to collect display-names of directories as they are listed, and plumb that information through.

[danielhjacobs]

Both changes (crash fix and path fix) are in M132.