We have covered quite a bit in this chapter. You have learned some cross-browser BOM (Browser Object Model) objects:
Properties of the global
windowobject such asnavigator,location,history,frames,screenMethods such as
setInterval()andsetTimeout();alert(),confirm(), andprompt();moveTo/By()andresizeTo/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,previousSiblingUsing
getElementsById(),getElementsByTagName(),getElementsByName()
Modify nodes:
Using
innerHTMLorinnerText/textContentUsing
nodeValueorsetAttribute()or just using attributes as object properties
Remove nodes with
removeChild()orreplaceChild()And add new ones with
appendChild(),cloneNode(),insertBefore()
We also looked at some DOM0 (pre-standardization...