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
const customElem = document.querySelector("my-shadow-dom-element"); const shadow = customElem.shadowRoot; // … // return the original host element some time later const hostElem = shadow.host; Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM # dom-shadowroot-host |
Browser compatibility
See also
partandexportpartsHTML attributes<template>and<slot>HTML elements:host,:host(), and:host-context()CSS pseudo-classes::partand::slottedCSS pseudo-elements