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How does Emulated differ from ShadowDom?

Emulated and ShadowDom differ in how they isolate styles:

  1. Emulated - Angular simulates isolation using attributes: each element of the component gets a unique attribute, and styles are scoped to that attribute. At the browser level, this is regular CSS, no Shadow DOM is used.
  2. ShadowDom - uses the browser's real Shadow DOM. The component's styles are fully isolated, HTML and CSS are hidden from the outer DOM, no external styles affect the component.

The main difference: Emulated simulates isolation via attributes, ShadowDom creates true isolation at the browser level.

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