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The referenceTarget property of a ShadowRoot object forwards attributes such as for and aria-labelledby to elements inside a shadow DOM. You can use this to, for example, link a <label> to its <input> even if the <input> is in the shadow DOM of a web component.

Status

Limited availability

MDN documentation

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Specifications

https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1353
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/10995

Browser support

Chrome ❌
Chrome Android ❌
Edge ❌
Firefox ❌
Firefox for Android ❌
Safari ❌
Safari on iOS ❌

Usage (according to Chrome Platform Status)

~0.009% of page loads. More data at chromestatus.com.

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