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Introduction to the DOM

Explore the Document Object Model, or DOM, to understand how web pages are structured and represented in browsers. Discover how JavaScript uses the DOM API to access and manipulate page elements, enabling dynamic and interactive web experiences.

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You already know that a web page is a document that contains text and tags such as headings, paragraphs, links, etc. This happens in a language called HTML. Let’s take this simple web page as an example. Feel free to add your own information!

To create this result, the browser first takes the HTML code and builds a representation of its structure. It then displays this structure in the browser.

The browser also offers programmatic access to its ...