DOM Manipulation

DOM stands for Document Object Model. It is an API to access represent the structure of a document:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model
The DOM is not unique to JavaScript. Many programming languages implement the DOM.
Thus, interacting with an .html document is similar in most languages. The class names and method names should be familiar.
- Sample DOM Parsing in Java
- Java DOM
- Python DOM
- PHP DOM
Walk through rawDomNavigation
- childNodes is a NodeList object (not an array)
  - But, NodeList does have a forEach method.
- the body’s first node is a text node containing the blank space between the <body> tag and the <h1> tag.
- Everything is a Node, not just Elements (i.e., the stuff with tags) #text is a kind of node. So is #comment
- nodeType is an int. You have to look up the name of the type that goes with each int.
- Look at the <ul> to see the difference between textContent and innerHTML
In JavaScript, you can access information by navigating through the DOM from the top; but, we usually use one of three methods to grab the object(s) we are specifically interested in.
Notice the “number” of the noun.
- getElementById is singular. It returns a single object.
- getElementsByClassName is plural. It returns an HTMLCollection of objects.
HTMLCollections can be tricky:
- They mostly behave like arrays
  - You can use [] notation to access elements
  - They have a length method. But,
- They don’t have most (now) standard array methods like forEach and map.
- However You can use Array.from to create an Array based on an HTMLCollection
  - Be aware: an HTMLCollection is a “live” list: It will change as the DOM is updated, whereas an Array is a “static” list: It will not be updated.
Walk through basicDOMManipulation
Walk through placementOfScript.html
Walk through hideableList.html
Walk through varVsLetSubtlty.html