ShadyCSS/DOM
Extension to the standard render
method which supports rendering to ShadowRoots when the ShadyDOM (https://github.com/webcomponents/shadydom) and ShadyCSS (https://github.com/webcomponents/shadycss) polyfills are used or when the webcomponentsjs (https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs) polyfill is used.
Import
Signature
render(result, container, options): void
Parameters
- result
unknown
- container
Element | DocumentFragment | ShadowRoot
- options
ShadyRenderOptions
Details
Adds a scopeName
option which is used to scope element DOM and stylesheets when native ShadowDOM is unavailable. The scopeName
will be added to the class attribute of all rendered DOM. In addition, any style elements will be automatically re-written with this scopeName
selector and moved out of the rendered DOM and into the document <head>
.
It is common to use this render method in conjunction with a custom element which renders a shadowRoot. When this is done, typically the element's localName
should be used as the scopeName
.
In addition to DOM scoping, ShadyCSS also supports a basic shim for css custom properties (needed only on older browsers like IE11) and a shim for a deprecated feature called @apply
that supports applying a set of css custom properties to a given location.
Usage considerations:
Part values in
<style>
elements are only applied the first time a givenscopeName
renders. Subsequent changes to parts in style elements will have no effect. Because of this, parts in style elements should only be used for values that will never change, for example parts that set scope-wide theme values or parts which render shared style elements.Note, due to a limitation of the ShadyDOM polyfill, rendering in a custom element's
constructor
is not supported. Instead rendering should either done asynchronously, for example at microtask timing (for examplePromise.resolve()
), or be deferred until the first time the element'sconnectedCallback
runs.
Usage considerations when using shimmed custom properties or @apply
:
Whenever any dynamic changes are made which affect css custom properties,
ShadyCSS.styleElement(element)
must be called to update the element. There are two cases when this is needed: (1) the element is connected to a new parent, (2) a class is added to the element that causes it to match different custom properties. To address the first case when rendering a custom element,styleElement
should be called in the element'sconnectedCallback
.Shimmed custom properties may only be defined either for an entire shadowRoot (for example, in a
:host
rule) or via a rule that directly matches an element with a shadowRoot. In other words, instead of flowing from parent to child as do native css custom properties, shimmed custom properties flow only from shadowRoots to nested shadowRoots.When using
@apply
mixing css shorthand property names with non-shorthand names (for exampleborder
andborder-width
) is not supported.
Template factory which scopes template DOM using ShadyCSS.
Import
Signature
shadyTemplateFactory(scopeName): (result: TemplateResult) => Template
Parameters
- scopeName
string