Document Object Model

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• DOM
• Overview of DOM
  • JS makes the HTML pages active and dynamic via the DOM.
  • Communicating with the browser via the DOM to respond to events.
  • A programming interface for web documents.
  • DOM is like a tree-like representation of the web page that gets loaded into the browser.
  • DOM represents the document as nodes and objects.
  • Without it, JS wouldnt have any model or notion of web pages, HTML documents, SVG Documents and their component parts.
  • Web API is used to build websites.
  • Language Independent -> made accessible to accessing the structure representation of the document available from a single , consistent API.
• How DOM represents an HTML Document in memory
• How to use APIs to create web content and applications