, if the browser supports shadom DOM.. Why? Important¶. The shadow DOM is a web API that lets you attach a DOM subtree which elements are "hidden". To reiterate, the basic idea of using a Shadow DOM in the context of styling is to ensure that the … That being said, there is the on-going ::part and ::theme proposal that would allow components to safely expose some of their internals outside their shadow tree to be customized. Within a Shadow DOM boundary, ... and there’s a custom stylesheet written to override some of … Overriding via global scope styling works only for inheritable CSS properties. If you want to set some non-inheritable property (like padding - see full list here). Component author publishes these properties for developers, they are same important as other public component methods. Because this is a newer API, you might first want to check that Shadow Parts are supported by the browsers you intend to target: browser support (both Chrome for Android and iOS Safari support the API). Like an