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What is a DOM? What do you know about it?
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for web documents. It represents the page so that programs can change the document structure, style, and content. With the DOM, programmers can access and manipulate HTML or XML documents as if they were using an object-oriented programming language. The DOM is not a programming language, but without it, the JavaScript programming language wouldn't have any model or notion of web pages, HTML documents, XML documents, or their component parts.
Here is an example in JavaScript:
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// Select an element by its id
const element = document.getElementById("myElement");
// Change the text content of the element
element.textContent = "Hello, SheCodes!";
// Add a new element to the document
const newElement = document.createElement("p");
newElement.textContent = "This is a new paragraph.";
document.body.appendChild(newElement);
To learn more about the DOM, you can visit the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) documentation: Introduction to the DOM
what does dom stand for?
DOM stands for Document Object Model. The Document Object Model is a programming interface for web documents. It represents the page so that programs can change the document structure, style, and content. You can learn more about the DOM on the official Mozilla Developer Network: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction
Explain to me DOM
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for web documents. It represents the page so that programs can change the document structure, style, and content. The DOM represents the document as nodes and objects. That way, programming languages can interact with the page.
For example, JavaScript can be used to manipulate the DOM:
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// get an element by its id
const element = document.getElementById("myId");
// change the text content of an element
element.textContent = "New text content";
// add a class to an element
element.classList.add("myClass");
Here is a link to the Mozilla Developer Network documentation on DOM: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction
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