IIRC, this is on one case
<https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/642#issuecomment-52534364> where
this.shadowRoot fails and instead, use automatic node finding.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Leandro Cruz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Arthur,
>
> Automatic node finding will not help is this case because the node I want
> is not static, hence not added to 'this.$'. The only way I know to get a
> reference to the node is using this.shadowRoot.querySelector() or
> this.shadowRoot.getElementById().
>
> It would be nice if the 'this.$' was updated upon a conditional rendering
> of a template that would include the element in 'this.$'.
>


Can, you can create a wrapper and query from that?

<div id="wrapper">
  ...
</div>

this.$.wrapper.querySelector('#youelement')


>
> --
> Leandro Rodrigo Saad Cruz
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Arthur Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Leandro,
>>
>> This kind of question is probably best asked over on stack overflow
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/>, using the polymer tag.
>>
>> I think this section might provide the pattern you're looking for:
>>
>>
>> https://www.polymer-project.org/docs/polymer/polymer.html#automatic-node-finding
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Arthur
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Leandro Cruz <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a custom element A which is extended by element B. Problem is
>>> that the 'this' reference in A points to B, not A, which makes a query in
>>> A's shadowRoot fail when extended by B.
>>>
>>> The attachment index.html provides an example.
>>> After loading the example, execute the following code in DevTools:
>>>
>>> var sub = document.querySelector('sub-object');
>>> var base = document.querySelector('base-object');
>>>
>>> sub.flag = true;
>>> base.flag = true;
>>>
>>> sub.byId('flaged'); // fails because the this.shadowRoot points to
>>> sub's, not base.
>>> base.byId('flaged'); // works
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
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