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📅 August 2026 release notes

Newly available

The following features are newly available:

  • sibling-count() and sibling-index(): The sibling-count() and sibling-index() CSS functions return integers that are useful to style elements based on their positions among siblings or on the number of siblings, for example as part of a calc() expression.

Widely available

The following features are now widely available:

  • Declarative shadow DOM: The shadowrootmode attribute on <template> creates a shadow root without the use of JavaScript. It is a declarative alternative to the attachShadow() method.