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HTML

              
                <div class="message">
  Alert! This is an alert message!
</div>

<div class="messages">  
  <custom-message
    author="Harry"
    profile-photo="https://via.placeholder.com/32x32"
    message-text="Hey, how are you?"
    time="17:05">
  </custom-message>
  
  <custom-message
    author="Me"
    profile-photo="https://via.placeholder.com/32x32"
    time="17:05">
    <div slot="message-text">
      I'm great, because
      <ul>
        <li>The weather is nice</li>
        <li>It's the weekend</li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </custom-message>
</div>
              
            
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CSS

              
                body .message {
  width: 50%;
  background-color: #ff3333;
  padding: 20px;
}

/* Below is just for nice presentation of the example! */

:root {
  --profile-photo-size: 32px;
}

body {
  font-family: sans-serif;
}

.messages {
  width: 400px;
}
              
            
!

JS

              
                // This template could also be stored in HTML as a `<template>`
const TEMPLATE = `
<div class="message">
  <img class="profile-photo">
  <div class="author"></div>
  <div class="message-text">
    <slot name="message-text"></slot>
  </div>
  <time></time>
</div>
<style>
.message {
  float: left;
  position: relative;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  width: 300px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  box-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  background-color: #fafafa;
  padding: 10px 10px 10px calc(var(--profile-photo-size) + 20px);
  margin: 5px 0;
}

.message.self {
  float: right;
  background-color: #eff7ff;
}

.message time {
  font-size: 75%;
  opacity: 0.5;
}

.profile-photo {
  position: absolute;
  left: 10px;
  top: 10px;
  width: var(--profile-photo-size);
  height: var(--profile-photo-size);
}

.author {
  font-weight: 700;
}
</style>
`;

// The class extends `HTMLElement`, but actually it could extend any element, such as `HTMLImageElement`
class CustomMessage extends HTMLElement {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.attachShadow({mode: 'open'});
    this.shadowRoot.innerHTML = TEMPLATE;
  }
  
  // Whenever an attibute is changed, this function is called. A switch statement is a good way to handle the various attributes.
  // Note that this also gets called the first time the attribute is set, so we do not need any special initialisation code.
  attributeChangedCallback(name, oldValue, newValue) {
    switch(name) {
      case 'author':
        this.shadowRoot.querySelector('.author').innerText = newValue;
        this.shadowRoot.querySelector('.message').classList.toggle('self', newValue === 'Me');
        break;
      case 'profile-photo':
        this.shadowRoot.querySelector('.profile-photo').setAttribute('src', newValue);
        break;
      case 'message-text':
        this.shadowRoot.querySelector('.message-text').innerText = newValue;
        break;
      case 'time':
        this.shadowRoot.querySelector('time').innerText = newValue;
        break;
    }
  }
  
  // We need to specify which attributes will be watched for changes. If an attribute is not included here, attributeChangedCallback will never be called for it
  static get observedAttributes() {
    return ['author', 'profile-photo', 'message-text', 'time'];
  }
}

// Now that our class is defined, we can register it
customElements.define('custom-message', CustomMessage);
              
            
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