ShadowRoot: host property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The host
read-only property of
the ShadowRoot
returns a reference to the DOM element the
ShadowRoot
is attached to.
Value
A DOM Element
.
Examples
js
let customElem = document.querySelector("my-shadow-dom-element");
let shadow = customElem.shadowRoot;
// ...
// return the original host element some time later
let hostElem = shadow.host;
Specifications
Specification |
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DOM Standard # dom-shadowroot-host |
Browser compatibility
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See also
part
andexportparts
HTML attributes<template>
and<slot>
HTML elements:host
,:host()
, and:host-context()
CSS pseudo-classes::part
and::slotted
CSS pseudo-elements