17 August 2023

Dealing with ShadowDOM with jQuery

Recently we started testing https://urban.org and we wanted to take screenshots of the dropdown menu and search box, but they were implemented as components with shadowDOM.

double shadow dom

 

 

Thankfully there is a way to interact with elements in shadowDOM with jQuery.

if (window.location.hash == '#menu') {
  var header = jQuery('lbj-header')[0].shadowRoot;
  jQuery(header).find('.header__menu-toggle').click();
}

Besides opening menu it was also possible to test clicking on the search box and even showing the autocomplete dropdown in the search.

 

urban.org expanded menu, search box

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Dealing with ShadowDOM with jQuery

Recently we started testing https://urban.org and we wanted to take screenshots of the dropdown menu and search box, but they were implemented as components with shadowDOM.
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