Re: [shadow-dom] ::before/after on shadow hosts

#2 for sure

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 4:52 PM Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was recently pointed to this StackOverflow thread
> <
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31094454/does-the-shadow-dom-replace-before-and-after/
> >
> which asks what happens to ::before and ::after on shadow hosts, as
> it's not clear from the specs.  I had to admit that I hadn't thought
> of this corner-case, and it wasn't clear what the answer was!
>
> In particular, there seem to be two reasonable options:
>
> 1. ::before and ::after are *basically* children of the host element,
> so they get suppressed when the shadow contents are displayed
>
> 2. ::before and ::after aren't *really* children of the host element,
> so they still show up before/after the shadow contents.
>
> According to the SO thread (I haven't tested this myself), Firefox and
> Chrome both settled on #2.  I'm fine to spec this in the Scoping
> module, I just wanted to be sure this was the answer we wanted.
>
> ~TJ
>
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