growthmindsit

Problem Domain, Objects, and the DOM

object

an object is a standalone entity, with properties and type. Compare it with a cup, for example. A cup is an object, with properties. A cup has a color, a design, weight, a material it is made of, etc. The same way, JavaScript objects can have properties, which define their characteristics.

object creating (literal notation)

accessing an object and dot notation

you can access the proparties or method using dot notation .you can also access the properties with square brackets .

doucment object model _DOM

When a web page is loaded, the browser creates a Document Object Model of the page.The HTML DOM model is constructed as a tree of Objects:

DOM trees have four types of nodes:

• document nodes .
• element nodes .
• attribute nodes, and text nodes.

  accessing and updateing DOM tree involve two steps :

• locate the node that represent the element you want to work with .
• use it is text contant ,child element and attributes

  caching DOM queries

  method that find the element in DOM tree are called DOM queries.when you want to use the element more than once ,you should store the result of query in a variable .

  DOM queries may return one element or nodelist which is a collection of node .

  methods that select indivedual elements: git element id and query selector can both search an entire document and return indvidual element . both use similar syntax .

  there are two ways to select an element from node list : the item() method and array syntax .both requier the index of the element that you want .

  repeating actions for an entire nodelist : when you have a node list , you can loop through each node in the collection and apply the same statments to each.

  Adding or removing HTML content

  there are two way :

• the inner HTML proparity
• DOM mainpolation

  attribute node

  once you have an element node , you can use other proparties and method on that element node to access and change it’s attributes

  there are two steps to accessing and updating attribute :

• select the element node and follow it with period symbol .
• use one of the methods or proparties to work with that element attributes.