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by wild_egg 1 day ago
Every one of those are things that the browser manages for you if you are using semantic markup and embracing web standards.
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This is a pipe dream. Browsers have come a long way but they're largely still broken in many many ways.
Would love to hear about which of those listed examples does not currently have native browser support.
> what the user is currently typing

Easy as pie. We don't even have to get into the specific of making things work correctly.

I don't understand what is broken with the browser's management of typed content. Do you have an example of UX that requires a custom state management layer on top?