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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Appending and Removing Elements

Kartik Kapoor
Kartik Kapoor
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Posted by Kartik Kapoor
Kartik Kapoor
3,016 Points

What is the difference between a node and an element?

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Saichand Pullepu
Saichand Pullepu
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Saichand Pullepu
Saichand Pullepu
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Node can have multiple elements like parent, child, Sibling. But Elements refer to single element.

Kartik Kapoor
Kartik Kapoor
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Kartik Kapoor
Kartik Kapoor
3,016 Points

Thanks for the clarification :).

Anestis Aou
Anestis Aou
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Anestis Aou
Anestis Aou
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I had the same question earlier in the course. What is a node?

From what I read, any part of HTML document is a node.

There are ELEMENT_NODES. ATTRIBUTE_NODES, TEXT_NODES, COMMENT_NODES and others that we don't have to worry yet.
The DOM consists of a hierarchy of nodes where each node can have a parent, a list of child nodes and a nextSibling and previousSibling.

check console:

document instanceof Node ->true

document instanceof Element -> false

document.firstChild -> <html >HTML TAGS</html>

document.firstChild instanceof Node -> true

document.firstChild instanceof Element -> true