JavaScript Workshop » DOM

Children, parents and siblings decribe the relationships for the current element in the DOM tree and whether it contains other elements or not.  Every node in the document has several properties such as nodeType which describes what the node is and nodeName which is the name of the elementor and finally nodeValue which is the value of the node, null if it is an element.

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Every browser offers the document it displays for manipulation via something called the Document Object Model, or DOM for short.  Older browsers supported their own DOMs, but there is a standard one, defined by the W3C, that is supported by most browsers these days.

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Jeremy Keith author of DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and Bulletproof Ajax and JavaScript guru along with Aaron Gustafson gave a talk about JavaScript and the DOM at SXSW06.

Here are the online slides that were given during the presentation.