Built-in v-model on <details> and <dialog>

[antfu]

Summary

Support built-in v-model binding for the native <details> element and <dialog> element.

Links

• Full Rendered Proposal
• RFC: Built-in v-model on <details> and <dialog> #496
• Implementation PR: feat: support v-model for <details> and <dialog> core#8048

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Summary

Support built-in v-model binding for the native <details> element and <dialog> element.

Basic example

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'

const show = ref(false)
</script>

<template>
  <details v-model="show">
    <summary>Summary</summary>
    <span>Details</span>
  </details>

  <dialog v-model="show">
    <form method="dialog">
      <button>OK</button>
    </form>
  </dialog>
</template>

When toggling the <details> or <dialog> element, the value of show should be reflected. Or once show has been modified, the details should expand/collapse automatically.

Motivation

Currently we support v-model built-in on input, textarea, select, which is convenient to bind the value to them. However, when it comes to <details> and <dialog>, v-model will throw and users would need to bind manually. Which could be a bit counterintuitive.

Since <details> and <dialog> are native elements, it makes sense to have built-in support for them.

For now, users would need to manually bind them as:

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'

const show = ref(false)
</script>

<template>
  <details :open="show" @toggle="show = $event.target.open">
    <summary>Summary</summary>
    <span>Details</span>
  </details>

  <dialog :open="show" @close="show = false">
    <form method="dialog">
      <button>OK</button>
    </form>
  </dialog>
</template>

• Playground Before
• Playground After

Detailed design

This is should be a compiler improvement, to be able to transform v-model on the <details> and <dialog> elements with open and @toggle.

Drawbacks

It might theoretically conflict if users managed to implement a nodeTransformer on the user land to support v-model on <details> or <dialog>. But we are not aware of any existing library doing this.

Alternatives

N/A

Adoption strategy

This is a new feature and should not affect the existing code.

Unresolved questions

N/A

[cawa-93]

How about <dialog> ?

[antfu]

Nice call! Added to the RFC!

[antfu]

Update: Implementation PR vuejs/core#8048

[stafyniaksacha]

Concerning <dialog> element, they are two ways to open them: using open() or openModal() methods, which behave differently

What do you think about using a modelModifier to support both?

[thedamon]

The native way of controlling dialog is quite strange to me (open attribute that is only for initial state and doesn't make it modal, open/openModal being separate functions instead of a modal attribute)

Abstracting that away into v-model and v-model:modal (or v-model.modal) would be really nice and avoid need of dom refs setting it up as well. The exact format of that abstraction is maybe less clear and hard to know what people would expect vs how closely to follow the native element behaviour. Should it be a modifier or a binding, should specification be required or open (vs modal) be the default?

Overall I think v-model for open and v-model.modal for openModal makes the most sense.

[skirtles-code]

As there are two states for the openness of these elements, they are similar to checkboxes from a data-binding perspective. For checkboxes, Vue supports various features beyond a basic boolean binding: e.g. true-value/false-value and binding Arrays and Sets. I can't find this mentioned in the current RFC, so I'm wondering whether these features are seen as undesirable/unnecessary for <details> and <dialog>, or are they just being left for a future iteration of the feature?

[thedamon]

I didn't realize that about checkbox models! I imagine it would make sense to handle these the same way.