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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Paul McFedries
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
848 pages
18h 2m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Playing with the Document Object Model

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding objects

Bullet Messing with object properties and methods

Bullet Specifying elements by ID, tag, class, and selector

Bullet Taking a deep dive into the Document Object Model

Bullet Programming parents, children, siblings, and other family members

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

— FRED BROOKS

I talk a lot of JavaScript in the past few chapters, but in a very real sense all that talk has been the programming equivalent of noshing on a few appetizers. Now it’s time to sit down for the main course: programming the Document Object Model. I explain what that is shortly, but for now it’s enough to know that it means taking control over every aspect of the web page. Want to change ...

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