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Web Components
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<p>Web Components are a set of features that provide a standard component model for the web allowing for <a href="/facts/Encapsulation_(object-oriented_programming)/kzDnbHPe">encapsulation</a> and <a href="/facts/Interoperability/7WgqUbXU">interoperability</a> of individual <a href="/facts/HTML_element/s4TKzjUP">HTML elements</a>. Web Components are a popular approach when building <a href="/facts/Microfrontend/8SLpq5qf">microfrontends</a>. </p><p>Primary technologies used to create Web Components include: </p> Custom Elements APIs to define new HTML elements Shadow DOM encapsulated DOM and styling, with composition HTML Templates HTML fragments that are not rendered, but stored until <a href="/facts/Instance_(computer_science)/5zPBGdX1">instantiated</a> via JavaScript<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>