webcomponentsHTMLImports
This platform feature, and polyfill, is deprecated, please consider using ES Modules instead.
A polyfill for HTMLImports.
The polyfill hosts the imported documents in the import link element. E.g.
<link rel="import" href="my-element.html">
<!-- becomes -->
<link rel="import" href="my-element.html">
<!-- my-element.html contents -->
</link>
The polyfill fires the HTMLImportsLoaded event when imports are loaded, and exposes the HTMLImports.whenReady method. This api is necessary because unlike the native implementation, script elements do not force imports to resolve. Instead, users should wrap code in either an HTMLImportsLoaded handler or after load time in an HTMLImports.whenReady(callback) call.
The polyfill provides the HTMLImports.importForElement() method which can be used to retrieve the <link rel=import> that imported an element.
Caveats / Limitations
<link>.import is not a Document
The polyfill appends the imported contents to the <link> itself to leverage the native implementation of Custom Elements, which expects scripts upgrading the CustomElementRegistry to be connected to the main document.
As a consequence, .ownerDocument will be the main document, while .parentNode of the imported children will be the <link rel=import> itself. Consider using HTMLImports.importForElement() in these cases. e.g:
const ownerDoc = HTMLImports.importForElement(document.currentScript);
let someElement = ownerDoc.querySelector('some-element');
if (ownerDoc !== HTMLImports.importForElement(someElement)) {
// This element is contained in another import, skip.
someElement = null;
}
If you require document isolation, use html-imports#v0.
Dynamic imports
The polyfill supports dynamically added imports by observing mutations in <head> and within other imports; it won't detect imports appended in <body>.
If you require to append imports in <body>, notify the polyfill of these additions using the method HTMLImports.loadImports(document.body).
Imported stylesheets in IE/Edge
In IE/Edge, appending <link rel=stylesheet> in a node that is not <head> breaks the cascading order; the polyfill checks if an import contains a <link rel=stylesheet>, and moves all the imported <link rel=stylesheet> and <style> to <head>. It drops a placeholder element in their original place and assigns a reference to the applied element, placeholder.__appliedElement. e.g.
my-element.html imports a stylesheet and applies a style:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="my-linked-style.css" />
<style>
.blue {
color: blue;
}
</style>
And is imported in index.html:
<head>
<link rel="import" href="my-element.html" />
</head>
This is how the resolved import will look like:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="my-linked-style.css">
<style> .blue { color: blue }; </style>
<link rel="import" href="my-element.html">
<link type="import-placeholder">
<style type="import-placeholder"></style>
</link>
</head>
The placeholders contain a reference to the applied element:
var myImport = document.head.querySelector('link[rel=import]').import;
var link = myImport.querySelector('link');
console.log(link.__appliedElement || link);
var style = myImport.querySelector('style');
console.log(style.__appliedElement || style);
Building & Running Tests
Build
$ git clone https://github.com/webcomponents/html-imports.git
$ cd html-imports
$ npm i
$ bower i
$ gulp
Run tests
$ npm i -g web-component-tester
$ wct