Good points. All you pointed out make sense to me. But I am wondering what we should do for these issues:
A). Discourage developers to use direct text children of ShadowRoot. B). Disallow direct text children of ShadowRoot in the Shadow DOM spec. C). Find a nice way to style direct text children of ShadowRoot. Did you mean B? On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Elliott Sprehn <[email protected]> wrote: > Direct text children of ShadowRoot are full of sadness: > > 1) You can't call getComputedStyle on them since that's only allowed for > Elements, and the old trick of parentNode doesn't work since that's a > ShadowRoot. ShadowRoot doesn't expose a host property so I can't get > outside to find the host style that's inherited either. If the ShadowRoot > has resetStyleInheritance set then the text uses a "root default style", > but I have no way to get that as well. > > 2) There's no way to set the style of the Text. Normally I can do > parentNode.style.color = ...; but since ShadowRoot has no style property I > have no way to influence the text of the ShadowRoot without dynamically > changing a <style> element. > > 3) You can't use elementFromPoint(). It returns null since > ShadowRoot.elementFromPoint should always return an element in that scope, > but there is no element in that scope. This means you have no sensible way > to do a hit test of the text in the shadow root. > > - E > -- Hayato
