Htmx 4: removing Request HTTP headers?

[danjac]

Looking at the reference and testing 4.0.0 alpha, it appears some key HTTP headers have been removed e.g. HX-Target - although this isn't mentioned anywhere in migration docs.

Is the plan to move these to some new format?

[theodoreb]

Got tripped up by that too, was relying on HX-Trigger-Name, easy enough to add in the htmx:config:request event but curious about the reasoning too.

[danjac]

Also a lot of server-side HTMX libraries e.g. django-htmx make use of these headers, so if they are being dropped they would need to be rewritten accordingly, which would be difficult to do if they require arbitrary client side modifications.

Hopefully they'll be added back at some point.

[1cg]

Thanks @danjac we will look at adding them back.

[danjac]

@1cg thanks! Looking forward to the new version.