#2 for sure On Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 4:52 PM Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@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 > >