Shadow DOM... Illustrated!
- Sathish Balaji
- Jan 10, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 11, 2023
What is DOM?
Browser generates Document object model from static html files in order to manipulate the structure, style and content.
Shadow DOM
Shadow DOM enables encapsulation to keep the markup, style and behaviour hidden and private to the component that hosts it.
Since it is private and hidden, global logic and styles cannot affect.
Events
Events that are thrown from within a shadow DOM usually do not propagate outside the boundary unless it is set to
composed: true
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