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# EnableShadowDOMProcessing

A Boolean value that specifies whether to enable support for shadow DOMs. A shadow DOM may contain content that the web page designer intended to hide from JavaScript and CSS that is applied to the rest of the page.

When this parameter is `FALSE`, content inside a shadow DOM is not retrieved and cannot be processed by JavaScript and CSS - for example you cannot perform form-filling or use custom JavaScript to modify the content inside the shadow DOM.

To enable these features and retrieve the content of a shadow DOM, set this parameter to `TRUE`. When the page is saved as HTML, shadow DOMs that are marked as serializable are included in the HTML. If the connector extracts plain text (IngestAsPlainText is `TRUE`) the text elements of shadow DOMs are included in the extracted text.

Type: | Boolean
Default: | True
Required: | No
Configuration Section: | TaskName or FetchTasks
Example: | `EnableShadowDOMProcessing=FALSE`
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Version 25.4 | Last updated October 2025

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Web Connector 25.4

Topic Title: EnableShadowDOMProcessing