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Web component: How to query children of a slot

Say I have a native web component, and it has a slot:

    <slot id="CONTENT_SLOT" name="content"></slot>

const CONTENT_SLOT = this.shadowRoot.getElementById("CONTENT_SLOT") finds the element, but CONTENT_SLOT.children is empty.

this.shadowRoot.querySelectorAll('[slot="content"]') returns an empty node list too.

document.querySelectorAll('[slot="content"]') finds items in the slot, but for all web components.

How can I get a NodeList of the elements in the content slot for the current web component instance only?

Solution

  • You can get the elements that are assigned to the slot with assignedElements().

    this.shadowRoot.querySelector('#CONTENT_SLOT').assignedElements();

    The difference between doing this and this.querySelectorAll('[slot="content"]') is that you get the elements that are actually in the slot instead the elements who have the slot attribute. Elements that aren't a direct child of the custom-element and do have the attribute will not be in the <slot>, but they will be found with this.querySelectorAll('[slot="content"]').