Everything you need to know about Invoker Commands | London Web Standards

February 26, 2025

Invokers are something a lot of people have wanted in the Web platform for a long time–a way of declaratively triggering built-in behaviors without JavaScript.

For example, the <button popovertarget=”myPopover”> attribute opens a <div popover id=”myPopover”>, enabling native pop-ups without extra scripting.

Here Keith Cirkle goes into them in detail.

And keep an eye out for a fantastic talk on popovers coming up soon on Conffab