Clone inert template content into the document.
HTML: Template children stay out of the rendered document until their fragment is inserted.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<template id="row"><li>New item</li></template><ul></ul><button>Add</button>
<script>
document.querySelector('button').onclick=()=>document.querySelector('ul').append(document.querySelector('template').content.cloneNode(true));
</script>
</body>
</html>Expected output EXAMPLE
No matches remain for the “ul li” element. Click the “Add” button. The “ul li” element displays “New item”.
Details
Save as example.html and open in a modern browser. The output describes browser behavior verified with DOM and interaction assertions. Template children stay out of the rendered document until their fragment is inserted.
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · · Chromium 141.0.7390.37 · libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0
Test inputs, results and environment
The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Unprivileged snippet process, external networking disabled, read-only root filesystem, and a fresh temporary working directory. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.
- Architecture / host kernel
- x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
- Snippet identity / locale
- uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged) / C.UTF-8
- Interpreter invocation
Chromium: open example.html; execute the published browser assertions- Container image ID
sha256:32dc2d998158b6554c99b73b533f423696a0f3e31e8cbea9db10b5eee9a2fadd- Code SHA-256
33a0a6553b5b9df2038254a9d01f318e18b33b993a0b7cfc79d1eba279a21183- Dependencies
- libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0
Test input setup
These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.
# No input files required.
Observed standard output
Expected output describes the rendered page. The standard-output record below is the browser test harness receipt; the additional assertions check the result and interactions.
Clone inert template content into the document: browser checks passed.
Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Shape/content assertions. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.
Additional assertions that passed
Checks recorded by the test harness. Where Python assertions are shown, browser cases use Playwright and simulator cases may inspect pin transitions: result.stdout is captured output, work is the temporary directory, and Path is pathlib.Path. The harness also imports json and csv.
assert await page.locator('ul li').count()==0
await page.get_by_role('button',name='Add').click()
assert await page.locator('ul li').inner_text()=='New item'