The Document Object Model (DOM) is a standardized interface provided by web browsers to represent and programmatically manipulate structured documents, especially HTML and XML documents. It describes the hierarchical structure of a document as a tree, where each node represents an element, attribute, or text.
Tree Structure:
<html>
element, with child nodes such as <head>
, <body>
, <div>
, <p>
, etc.Object-Oriented Representation:
Interactivity:
<p>
element or insert a new <div>
.Platform and Language Agnostic:
1. Accessing an Element:
let element = document.getElementById("myElement");
2. Changing Content:
element.textContent = "New Text";
3. Adding a New Element:
let newNode = document.createElement("div");
document.body.appendChild(newNode);
The DOM is defined and maintained by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards and is constantly updated to support modern web technologies.