Missing interface definition for Highlight API

[Momomash]

🔎 Search Terms

Highlight
Highlight API
CSS custom highlight api

🕗 Version & Regression Information

Version 4.9.5

This happen in the 'Nightly' version as well.

Please keep and fill in the line that best applies:

This is a crash
This changed between versions ______ and _______
X This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about: Could not find anything relevant.
I was unable to test this on prior versions because _______

⏯ Playground Link

A link to a TypeScript Playground "Share" link which shows this behavior: http://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=Nightly

💻 Code

const hl = new Highlight()

🙁 Actual behavior

Cannot find name 'Highlight'.(2304)

🙂 Expected behavior

Should return a newly created Highlight object.

Constructor
Highlight()

let hl = new Highlight();
console.log(hl) // Highlight {priority: 0, type: 'highlight', size: 0}

Additional information about the issue

There was been a similar issue before — #53003. The issue was closed because the Highlighter API was experimental — #53003 (comment).

But now the Highlighter API is no longer experimental and is supported by many browsers:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_Highlight_API#browser_compatibility

[MartinJohns]

Duplicate of microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#1698.