Pure JavaScript, Second Edition

Chapter 11 Dom Html

This chapter extends the DOM Level 2 Core API to describe objects and methods specific to HTML documents. In general, the functionality needed to manipulate hierarchical document structures, elements, and attributes will be found in the core section; functionality that depends on the specific elements defined in HTML will be found in this chapter.

The goals of the HTML-specific DOM API are

• To specialize and add functionality that relates specifically to HTML documents and elements.

• To address issues of backward compatibility with the DOM Level 0.

• To provide convenience mechanisms, where appropriate, for common and frequent operations on HTML documents.

The key differences between the core DOM and the HTML application ...