10 Essential DOM Methods & Techniques for Practical JavaScript

Now that there are so many great Javascript libraries out there (jQuery, Mootools, Prototype etc etc) it’s easy to forget – or if you’re starting out, even know – that you can do this by getting down to the nitty gritty of accessing the DOM directly. This tutorial goes through some of the more important javascript methods of DOM manipulation such as getElementById, getElementsByTagName, and then goes on to reading and writing from those nodes. Oh, and it tells you what a node is too.

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Now that there are so many great Javascript libraries out there (jQuery, Mootools, Prototype etc etc) it’s easy to forget – or if you’re starting out, even know – that you can do this by getting down to the nitty gritty of accessing the DOM directly. This tutorial goes through some of the more important javascript methods of DOM manipulation such as getElementById, getElementsByTagName, and then goes on to reading and writing from those nodes. Oh, and it tells you what a node is too.

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