MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:target

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

the whole page

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The page explains that the :target pseudo-class

represents a unique element (the target element) with an id matching the URL's fragment.

Throughout the rest of the page, the examples say that the selector will match if the URL has a fragment that matches an elements id. But the target element isn't always the element with an id matching the URL fragment. SPAs make use of pushState/replaceState for navigation and apparently the target element is not updated in response to these (whatwg/html#639 (comment)) so :target will not always reflect the URL fragment.

What did you expect to see?

I would expect the document to emphasize that the selector matches the "target element" and explain that it won't respond to changes in the URL.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

• Define that push/replaceState don't affect to :target handling whatwg/html#639
• [selectors] New pseudo-class that matches the current URL fragment w3c/csswg-drafts#6942
• https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83490

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