Object-Oriented JavaScript

Summary

We have covered quite a bit in this chapter. You have learned some cross-browser BOM (Browser Object Model) objects:

• Properties of the global window object such as navigator, location, history, frames, screen
• Methods such as setInterval() and setTimeout(); alert(), confirm(), and prompt(); moveTo/By() and resizeTo/By()

Then you learned about the DOM (Document Object Model) as a way to represent an HTML (or XML) document as a tree structure where each tag or text is a node on the tree. You learned how to:

• Access nodes:
  • Using parent/child relationship properties parentNode, childNodes, firstChild, lastChild, nextSibling, previousSibling
  • Using getElementsById(), getElementsByTagName(), getElementsByName()
• Modify nodes:
  • Using innerHTML or innerText/textContent ...