themesberg / themesberg/flowbite

Support for Shadow DOM

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Description

Please point me to the relevant resources if I am wrong, but it seems like Flowbite cannot be used together with Shadow DOM in native web components.

While the style examples work perfectly fine, the JS seems to work with document-level selectors (such as here), which will fail to find any results when working with a shadow DOM. The approach for that would be to pass the shadow root to this init function, so it can search within the shadow root.

Is there any perspective on getting Flowbite to work properly with web components and shadow dom?

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Research direction

Start with src/components/dropdown/index.ts around line 247 and inspect how document-level selectors are used by component initialization. Compare that behavior with native web components and Shadow DOM; the work is done when Flowbite's JavaScript components can initialize and find their elements within a shadow root without breaking document-level usage.

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Assessment

Tech stack
tailwindcss, typescript
Domain
frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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