Accessing <content> contents

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I'm making a Polymer component to encapsulate some settings. I was thinking one could put anything in the contents of this settings component and it will internally figure out how to turn this into a URL. Settings will be persisted just through GET variables. Settings will be used by other components through regular Polymer databinding.

So I want to iterate over the contents of the component's <content>, looking for HTML inputs, selects, etc. I can't figure out how to do this. I've tried accessing <content> by putting it inside a div, then using this.$.myDiv, and I've also tried accessing the content directly by assigning it an id, using this.$.myContent. In both cases, I can't find any references to the content children. I see a childNodes field with 3 items but none of these look right.

Can someone help me access content or tell me if there is simply a better approach here?

Thanks!

[Steve Orvell]

You're looking for the `getDistributedNodes` method on the `<content>` element. It's explained here: 

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/shadowdom-301/

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[Eric Bidelman]

There's also http://www.polymer-project.org/resources/faq.html#accessContentDOM, which discusses when it's appropriate to first access gDN()

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