The ShadowRoot interface of the Shadow DOM API is the root node of a DOM subtree that is rendered separately from a document's main DOM tree.
You can retrieve a reference to an element's shadow root using its Element.shadowRoot property, provided it was created using Element.attachShadow() with the mode option set to open.
Returns the Element set as the target for mouse events while the pointer is locked. null if lock is pending, pointer is unlocked, or if the target is in another tree.
Returns an array of all elements at the specified coordinates.
Examples
The following snippets are taken from our life-cycle-callbacks example (see it live also), which creates an element that displays a square of a size and color specified in the element's attributes.
Inside the <custom-square> element's class definition we include some life cycle callbacks that make a call to an external function, updateStyle(), which actually applies the size and color to the element. You'll see that we are passing it this (the custom element itself) as a parameter.
connectedCallback(){
console.log('Custom square element added to page.');updateStyle(this);}attributeChangedCallback(name, oldValue, newValue){
console.log('Custom square element attributes changed.');updateStyle(this);}
In the updateStyle() function itself, we get a reference to the shadow DOM using Element.shadowRoot. From here we use standard DOM traversal techniques to find the <style> element inside the shadow DOM and then update the CSS found inside it: