Lesson 2: Creating Reusable Components with Directives
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a convention created by W3C in 1998 for documents written in HTML, XHTML, and XML in an object tree, which is used by the browsers throughout the rendering process. By means of the DOM API, it is possible to traverse the hierarchical structure of the tree to access and manipulate information.
Every time we access a web page, the browser sends a request to the server and then waits for the response. Once the content of the HTML document is received, the browser starts the analysis and the parse process in order to build the DOM tree. When the tree building is done, the AngularJS compiler comes in and starts to go through it, looking into the elements for special ...
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