The Browser Environment | 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
- Using nodeValue or setAttribute() or just using attributes as object properties
Remove nodes with removeChild() or replaceChild()
And add new ones with appendChild(), cloneNode(), insertBefore()

We also looked at some DOM0 (pre-standardization...

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