HTMLSlotElement: assignedNodes() method

Syntax

assignedNodes()
assignedNodes(options)

Parameters

options Optional

An object that sets options for the nodes to be returned. The available options are:

flatten

A boolean value indicating whether to return the assigned nodes of any available child <slot> elements (true) or not (false). Defaults to false.

Return value

An array of nodes.

Examples

The following snippet is taken from our slotchange example (See it live).

let slots = this.shadowRoot.querySelectorAll("slot");
slots[1].addEventListener("slotchange", (e) => {
  let nodes = slots[1].assignedNodes();
  console.log(
    `Element in Slot "${slots[1].name}" changed to "${nodes[0].outerHTML}".`,
  );
});

Here we grab references to all the slots, then add a slotchange event listener to the 2nd slot in the template — which is the one that keeps having its contents changed in the example.

Every time the element inserted in the slot changes, we log a report to the console saying which slot has changed, and what the new node inside the slot is.

Specifications

Browser compatibility