Web Components

Web Components are a set of standards currently being produced by Google engineers as a W3C specification that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications. The intention behind them is to bring component-based software engineering to the World Wide Web. The components model allows for encapsulation and interoperability of individual HTML elements.

Support for Web Components is present in some WebKit-based browsers like Google Chrome and Opera and is in Mozilla Firefox (requires a manual configuration change). Microsoft's Internet Explorer has not implemented any Web Components specifications yet.^[1] Backwards compatibility with older browsers is implemented using JavaScript-based polyfills.

Web Components consist of 4 main elements which can be used separately or all together:

Custom Elements
Shadow DOM
HTML Imports
HTML Templates

References

↑ "Are We Componentized Yet?".

External links

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