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Custom Elements

Custom elements is a feature that, until recently, was developed as monkeypatches onto various specifications. To help implementers have a consolidated view of how custom elements change the DOM Standard, we have a few resources.

First, there is a rendered HTML diff containing all the changes related to custom elements.

Second, we provide this listing of affected sections:

• Mutation algorithms: in particular insert and remove
• The clone algorithm, to handle elements specifically
• Interface Document: the createElement and createElementNS IDL definitions and algorithms, and the addition of the ElementCreationOptions dictionary.
• Interface Element:
  • The "custom element state" concept and related definitions
  • The "create an element" algorithm
  • Modifications to changing, appending, removing, and replacing attributes.

Finally, here is a listing of all relevant commits:

• https://github.com/whatwg/dom/commit/7f63535da39a1cbf7f8f68563abc6f05f760990a
• https://github.com/whatwg/dom/commit/2168da2d46249ce4f03c8d706d1748e54456db17