If at document load or at hashchange time there was no element matching the URL fragment, but one is created later (or an id is changed to one that matches), does :target match this element?
It appears that :target is mentioned in both our Selectors spec, and the WHATWG HTML spec. Our spec seems to imply that :target should match in that case (which is on par with the reactive way CSS selectors typically work), whereas the WHATWG spec seems to imply that if the UA is not required to scroll, :target shouldn't match either.
Due to this, this Chrome bug was closed as invalid, so if this is not the desired behavior, we should probably resolve. In terms of browser behavior, Blink, Gecko, and WebKit seem to be in agreement that delayed ids do not affect :target matching (testcase)