Mastering the HTML `<template>` Element: Declarative Shadow DOM and DocumentFragment Tricks
2025-09-03
This article delves into the powerful capabilities of the HTML `` element, focusing on its use with the `shadowrootmode` attribute for declarative Shadow DOM creation. It thoroughly explains the `open` and `closed` values of `shadowrootmode`, and the usage of attributes like `shadowrootclonable`, `shadowrootdelegatesfocus`, and `shadowrootserializable`. Furthermore, the article illustrates how to manipulate DocumentFragment using the `` element's `content` property, cleverly avoiding potential DocumentFragment pitfalls. Through concrete code examples, it demonstrates how to dynamically insert and update DOM elements, and how to leverage Shadow DOM for style encapsulation and component-based development.
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HTML template