The HTML DOM
HTML Document Object Model The HTML DOM (HTML Document Object Model) is an Object Model for HTML Documents. The HTML DOM is a tree of Nodes that represents an HTML Page The DOM Tree When a web page loads, the browser creates a tree-like representation of the HTML document. The most common way to access an HTML element is to use the id of the element: Each part of the document are nodes in the tree: Accessing HTML Elements The HTML DOM can be used to access HTML elements. The most common way to a
HTML Document Object Model
The HTML DOM (HTML Document Object Model) is an Object Model for HTML Documents.
The HTML DOM is a tree of Nodes that represents an HTML Page
The DOM Tree
When a web page loads, the browser creates a tree-like representation of the HTML document.
Accessing HTML Elements
The HTML DOM can be used to access HTML elements.
The most common way to access an HTML element is to use the id of the element:
Each part of the document are nodes in the tree:
Accessing HTML Elements
The HTML DOM can be used to access HTML elements.
The most common way to access an HTML element is to use the id of the element:
In the example above, the getElementById method used id="demo" to find the element.
id="demo" is an HTML property
getElementById() is a DOM Method
innerHTML is a DOM Property
The World Wide Web Consortium
The DOM is a W3C Standard (World Wide Web Consortium):
"The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document."
The W3C DOM standard is separated into 3 different parts:
Core DOM - standard model for all document types
XML DOM - standard model for XML documents
HTML DOM - standard model for HTML documents
