The document explains the Document Object Model (DOM), emphasizing that everything within it is a node, including HTML elements, attributes, and text. It provides JavaScript examples for selecting elements, creating new nodes, and handling events using methods such as getElementById, querySelector, and addEventListener. Overall, it offers a foundational understanding of interacting with and manipulating the DOM in web development.

1. Interacting with the
DOM
- Professor Flo

2. What does DOM stand for?
• The DOM is short for the “Document Object Model”
• in the DOM everything is a node.
• The Document it self is a node.
• HTML Elements are nodes
• attributes are nodes
• text elements are node,
• EVERYTHING IS A NODE !!!

3. This is a Document

4. This is a Document

5. You get the Picture

6. Every Page You View in
Your Browser is a
Document

7. Now let’s take a look
at DOM Structure

8. The DOM TREE
again, every element is a node, html, attributes, txt, etc.

9. Selecting Elements
from the DOM

10. Get Element By ID
• document.getElementById(‘myID’); // Javascript
Example
• How it looks in html <div id=“myID”>

11. Get Elements by Tag Names
• var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(‘div’);
• HTML this will select all the <divs> on your page
• var paragraphs =
document.getElementsByTagName(‘p’); // selects all the
p tags on your page, etc.
• How to select the various first element of a series
• var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(‘div’)
[0]; // similar to how you access the index of an array

12. document.querySelector
• var class = document.querySelector(“.myclass”);
• HTML example <p class=“myclass”> selects the p
tag with the my class css class.
• var id = document.querySelector(“#myID”);
• HTML example selects the paragraph with the id of
myID <p id=“myID”>

13. querySelectorAll
• var ended = document.body.querySelectorAll(‘div’);
• // The above example returns all the divs in the body tag
• var el = document.querySelector(‘#test’);
• var matches = el.querySelectorAll(‘div.highlighted > p’)
• // This example returns a list of p children elements under the
highlighted container div
• HTML Example <div class=“highlighted”><p></p></p>
• </div><p></p> // Will select ONLY the p’s inside highlighted div not
the paragraph outside of that.

14. Creating Elements in the
DOM via javascript
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// Syntax for Creating an Element
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// var element = document.createElement(tagName);
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var floSpecialDiv = document.createElement(‘div’);
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var text = document.createTextNode(‘JavaScript on Fleek’);
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floSpecialDiv.appendchild(text);

15. HaHa Awesome. Got all the Nuts and Bolts
out the Way now time for Javascript Events

16. The Onclick Event
• HTML <div id=“ClickMe”></div>
• javascript
• document.getElementById(‘ClickMe’).onclick=funct
ion(){ alert(‘You clicked the click me’);}

17. A Cleaner way
addEventListener
• var whatsClickin =
document.getElementById(‘ClickMe’);
• whatClickin.addEventListener(‘click’, function(){
• alert(‘You Clicked on me’);}, false);

18. Properties of
AddEventListener
• // Event Listener Syntax
• // element.addEventLister(“click”, function()
{},useCapture);
• // target.addEventListener(type, listener[,
useCapture

19. Alright let’s Start Coding in Paradise :)