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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Introduction to jQuery What is the DOM?

Ivana Lescesen
Ivana Lescesen
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Posted by Ivana Lescesen
Ivana Lescesen
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What is the DOM?

Hi, can someone tell me what the DOM and traversing is. Thank you so much :)

A X
A X
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Ivana Lescesen : I also wondered the same things after watching Andrew's video that was supposed to explain this.

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Simon Coates
Simon Coates
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Simon Coates
Simon Coates
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The DOM (document object model) is a representation of the page as a treelike structure, allowing interaction with the page from javascript. Traversing it means moving around the tree structure. (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction)