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Bart
Bart

Reputation: 17361

Get shadow root host element

When inserting a script into the shadow root of an element is there a way to refer to the host element?

var element = document.createElement('div');
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.innerHTML = 'console.log(host)'; // << How to get host element??

var shadow = element.createShadowRoot();
shadow.appendChild(script);

document.body.appendChild(element);

http://jsfiddle.net/9b1vyu4n/

Upvotes: 29

Views: 25563

Answers (2)

darrylyeo
darrylyeo

Reputation: 3453

Node.getRootNode() was introduced in 2016.

You can now access the host element like so:

element.getRootNode().host

Upvotes: 60

Bart
Bart

Reputation: 17361

I got this finally figured out.

According to the specification (working draft) a ShadowRoot has a read only property called host. http://www.w3.org/TR/shadow-dom/#shadowroot-object

interface ShadowRoot : DocumentFragment {
    ...
    readonly    attribute Element        host;
    ...
};

You can get to the shadow root by walking up the DOM tree.

while(e.nodeType != 11) { // 11 = DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
    e = e.parentNode;
}
var hostElement = e.host

In my case it was simpler since the shadow root was the parent node of the script itself.

document.currentScript.parentNode.host

http://jsfiddle.net/9b1vyu4n/2/

Upvotes: 31

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