How to get element in user-agent shadow root with JavaScript?

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You cannot access a Shadow DOM created by the browser to display a control, that is called a #shadow-root (user-agent) in the Dev Tools. <input> is one example.

You can only access open custom Shadow DOM (the ones that you create yourself), with the { mode: 'open' } option.

element.attachShadow( { mode: 'open' } )

Update

It’s true for most UX standard HTML elements: <input>, <video>, <textarea>, <select>, <audio>, etc.

3rd party edit 2022

The following might help to illustrate the question. Give there is only 1 <input type=range> in the html document this code shows if its children can be accessed.

 // returns 1 as expected since only one input element is in the document
document.querySelectorAll("input").length; 

// get a reference to <input type=range>
var rangeInput = document.querySelector("input");     

// Is it a shadowRoot?
// if null then either 
//   - it is not a shadowRoot OR 
//   - its elements can not be accessed (mode == closed)
console.log(rangeInput.shadowRoot);  // returns null

The code above shows that the internals of an <input type=range> can not be accessed.

input_type_range_shadowRoot_access

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