The <slot> HTML element—part of the Web Components technology suite—is a placeholder inside a web component that you can fill with your own markup, which lets you create separate DOM trees and present them together.
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<slot>: The Web Component Slot element
Attributes
This element includes the global attributes.
- 
     
name - 
     
The slot's name.
A named slot is a
<slot>element with anameattribute. 
Examples
html
<template id="element-details-template">
  <style>
    details {
      font-family: "Open Sans Light", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    }
    .name {
      font-weight: bold;
      color: #217ac0;
      font-size: 120%;
    }
    h4 {
      margin: 10px 0 -8px 0;
      background: #217ac0;
      color: white;
      padding: 2px 6px;
      border: 1px solid #cee9f9;
      border-radius: 4px;
    }
    .attributes {
      margin-left: 22px;
      font-size: 90%;
    }
    .attributes p {
      margin-left: 16px;
      font-style: italic;
    }
  </style>
  <details>
    <summary>
      <code class="name">
        <<slot name="element-name">NEED NAME</slot>>
      </code>
      <span class="desc"><slot name="description">NEED DESCRIPTION</slot></span>
    </summary>
    <div class="attributes">
      <h4>Attributes</h4>
      <slot name="attributes"><p>None</p></slot>
    </div>
  </details>
  <hr />
</template>
   Note: You can see this complete example in action at element-details (see it running live). In addition, you can find an explanation at Using templates and slots.
Technical summary
| Content categories | Flow content, phrasing content | 
|---|---|
| Permitted content | Transparent | 
| Events | slotchange | 
        
| Tag omission | None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. | 
| Permitted parents | Any element that accepts phrasing content | 
| Implicit ARIA role | No corresponding role | 
| Permitted ARIA roles | No role permitted | 
        
| DOM interface | HTMLSlotElement | 
        
Specifications
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
slot | 
       53 | 79 | 63 | No | 40 | 10 | 53 | 53 | 63 | 41 | 10 | 6.0 | 
name | 
       53 | 79 | 63 | No | 40 | 10 | 53 | 53 | 63 | 41 | 10 | 6.0 | 
See also
- HTML 
<template>element - HTML 
slotattribute - CSS 
::slottedpseudo-element - CSS scoping module
 
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