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<template>: The Content Template element

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217 points palmfacehn | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 17:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.262s | source
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EGreg ◴[02 Sep 25 19:00 UTC] No.45107545[source]▶
What exactly is the point of <template> tag? Just to create document fragments? I mean that’s all you can really do with it in HTML. If you are using JS you can attach shadow dom to any element.

I guess maybe slots for web components is the other point?

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1. Theodores ◴[02 Sep 25 19:58 UTC] No.45108238[source]▶
Good question. Yes there was all that web components stuff that didn't go the HTML5 way, and the template element is definitely a child of that. Since elements that get into the spec can't be removed easily, they do get repurposed instead over time.