What's wrong with "required"? Is it invalid? Is it deprecated?

[peterbe]

Summary

I arrive on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/required and it highlights the relevant page in the left side-bar:

But my impression, with that red is that it means that required is "bad" or "dangerous" or something.

URL

Any page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete

Reproduction steps

1. View a page where the attribute is highlighted in the sidebar
2. Be shocked and confused :)

Expected behavior

Some other way to highlight which page I'm currently on.

Actual behavior

The same style as for dangerous things. E.g.

Device

Desktop

Browser

Chrome

Browser version

Stable

Operating system

Android

Screenshot

Pasted above.

Anything else?

No response

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[caugner]

Thanks for flagging this, Peter. 👋

I'll note here:

1. The highlight color in the left sidebar is consistent with the highlight color in the TOC on the right:
2. The color depends on the section, and while the HTML section uses red, the CSS section uses blue:

However, even though the design (of the TOC) and those colors were intentionally chosen by our designer in early 2022, I agree that it is misleading in the HTML section, because the highlight in the sidebar/TOC looks exactly like the warning notecards/callouts (even if it uses a slightly different color).

So I'll add this to the backlog of issues to be looked at by our UX designer.

[peterbe]

Hi Claas, As you can probably tell, I'm playing devils advocate. I'm aware of that (strange) design decision :) I just got the inclination to raise my voice in hope that it helps, for everyone's sake. Keep up the good work!