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Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Simon Willison published an educational piece with interactive examples explaining the Web Components Shadow DOM API. The article covers style encapsulation, inheritance, slots, parts, and JavaScript access to shadow roots.

Background

Shadow DOM is a web standard that allows components to have encapsulated DOM trees separate from the main document, widely used in modern web component libraries.

Source
Simon Willison
Published
Sep 24, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Score
5.0 / 10