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Web Components Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: JavaScript Web APIs.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Other Working Drafts

2013-05-14

Shadow DOM

Describes a method of establishing and maintaining functional boundaries between DOM subtrees and how these subtrees interact with each other within a document tree.
2013-05-14

HTML Imports

This document defines a way to include and reuse HTML documents in other HTML documents.
2013-05-14

Custom Elements

This document describes the method for enabling the author to define and use new types of DOM elements in a document.
2013-02-14

HTML Templates

Describes a method for declaring inert DOM subtrees in HTML and manipulating them to instantiate document fragments with identical contents
2012-05-22

Introduction to Web Components

Provides an overview of Web Components.