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JavaScript Interacting with the DOM Traversing the DOM Getting All Children of a Node with children

Gal Parselany
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why to add classname that dosent exist?!?!

Seriously how can we add className = 'remove' if it does not exist in the CSS?

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Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Any element can be given one or more class names at any time. If there is no CSS rule that targets the class then no special styling will be applied.

But having the class makes it easy to add CSS later to apply styling, if desired.