Im injecting some Javascript that creates an isolated div located at the top of the body. Within this div there is a shadowDom element. The reason I went with shadowDom is because I thought it stoped CSS from bleeding in to all the divs within the shadowDom. But I can clearly see that it is inheriting style from the tag(font-size: 62.5%;). This is causing my text to be smaller. I can override this with adding font-size: 100% !Important but even though it crosses it out in the inspector tools it does not actually change. The only way I can get it to work is by unchecking the box in the CSS portion.

Please Help

Thanks,

Dev Joe

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Im injecting some Javascript that creates an isolated div located at the top of the body. Within this div there is a shadowDom element. The reason I went with shadowDom is because I thought it stoped CSS from bleeding in to all the divs within the shadowDom. But I can clearly see that it is inheriting style from the tag(font-size: 62.5%;). This is causing my text to be smaller. I can override this with adding font-size: 100% !Important but even though it crosses it out in the inspector tools it does not actually change. The only way I can get it to work is by unchecking the box in the CSS portion.

Please Help

Thanks,

Dev Joe

HTML Shadow Dom IMAGE

CSS Checked IMAGE

CSS Unchecked IMAGE

• javascript
• html
• css
• web-ponent
• shadow-dom

2 Answers 2

You should not use a relative font size (like 100%) because it applies to inherited size... so this will have no effect.

Insead, you should define a rule to the :host CSS peudo-class:

:host {
   font-size: initial ;
}

NB: You'll need to add !important only if the font-size defined in the container (the main document) applies to the host element directly.

NB #2: You can use all: initial instead but you cannot bine it with !important.

host.attachShadow( { mode: 'open' } )
    .innerHTML = `
      <style>
        :host { all: initial }
      </style>
      Inside Shadow Root <br>
      <div>Div in Shadow DOM</div>
      <slot></slot>
    `

body { font-size : 62.5% ; color: red }

Small Font
<div>Div in main Document</div>
<div id=host>Light DOM</div>

No need for shadow dom, just use the all attribute to disable the inheritance.

#myElement {
  all: initial;
}