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Getting Started with Web Components

You're reading from   Getting Started with Web Components Build modular and reusable components using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649234
Length 158 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prateek Jadhwani Prateek Jadhwani
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Extending Web Components – slots

Till now, we have used Web Components with no HTML content inside them. That is, when we import an HTML tag for a Web Component that we created, we have never placed any other HTML tag inside it, for example:

<custom header>
<!-- no html here -->
</custom-header>

This creates a huge limitation on the Web Component that we are creating. In the <custom header> component, we failed to add dynamic links. You can argue that we can place link data in the form of attributes and then we can run a loop inside our component definition and build the links. But what if we want a button instead of links? What if we want to show user points instead of the button? So, not being able to do these things is a limitation.

In this section, we will extend our current knowledge of Web Components and use the concept of slots...

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