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Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia: Complete Website Development and Best Practices
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Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia: Complete Website Development and Best Practices

by Mark J. Collins
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
15h 51m
English
Apress
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© Mark J. Collins 2017

Mark J.  Collins, Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2463-2_18

18. DOM Elements

Mark J. Collins1 

(1)Chesterfield, Virginia, USA

An HTML document is a specialized XML document and, like all XML documents, is comprised of a hierarchy of node elements. Each node can have a parent node and zero or more child nodes. In previous chapters, you created these nodes through some type of HTML editor or possibly a simple text editor. In this chapter, I will show you how you can read and manipulate these nodes through JavaScript.

Document Object Model

For a quick review, here is a very simple HTML document. It contains a head element that contains four child elements: a meta, title, link, and script element. ...

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