ShadowRoot: host property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The host read-only property of
the ShadowRoot returns a reference to the DOM element the
ShadowRoot is attached to.
Value
A DOM Element.
Examples
js
let customElem = document.querySelector("my-shadow-dom-element");
let shadow = customElem.shadowRoot;
// ...
// return the original host element some time later
let hostElem = shadow.host;
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM # dom-shadowroot-host |
Browser compatibility
| desktop | mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
host | ||||||||||||
See also
partandexportpartsHTML attributes<template>and<slot>HTML elements:host,:host(), and:host-context()CSS pseudo-classes::partand::slottedCSS pseudo-elements