Head Rush Ajax

the document object model

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You can visit u

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“Webville Tree Farm”

“Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML”

“, though, so expect great things soon.”

“Welcome to the Webville Tree Farm.

We’re still learning about CSS, so

pardon out plain site. We just bought “

“You can visit us at the corner of

Binary Blvd. and DOM Drive. Come

check us out today!“

<html> is the root

element. Everything else

branches out from it.

Eventually, the tree

ends in leaves, which

often are just pieces

of text in the HTML.

Each bit of markup can have

any number of children.

Sometimes an element

has several children...

...and other times,

an element has

only one child.

Text is represented in the

tree, as well as elements.

When you’re showing the

elements in a tree, you

usually leave off the

angle brackets, < and >.

Here’s the HTML that

this tree represents.

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