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JavaScript came about during a dark and lawless time, before the web standards movement, when all the major players in the browser world were—for want of a better term—winging it. It likely won’t come as a major surprise to anyone that Netscape and Microsoft implemented radically different versions of the DOM, with the prevailing sentiment being “may the best browser win.” insertBefore() The insertBefore() method, as you might guess, inserts an element before another element. It takes two arguments: the first is the node that gets inserted, and the second is the element it gets inserted in front of. You also need to know the ...

Inner HTML gives us a simple method for accessing and changing the text and markup inside an element. It behaves differently from the methods we’ve covered so far. Let’s say we need a quick way of adding a paragraph of text to the first element on our page with a class of intro: var introDiv = document.getElementsByClassName("intro"); introDiv.innerHTML = "<p>This is our intro text</p>"; The second statement here adds the content of the string to introDiv (an element with the class value “intro”) as a real live element because innerHTML tells JavaScript to parse the strings “<p>” and “</p>” as markup. style The DOM also allows you to ...

Here we will discuss about some more id attributes syntaxes. By id attribute value getElementById() This method returns a single element based on that element’s ID (the value of its id attribute), which we provide to the method as an argument. For example, to access this particular image: <img src="photo.jpg" alt="" id="lead-photo">' We include the id value as an argument for the getElementById() method: var photo = document.getElementById("lead-photo"); By class attribute value getElementsByClassName() Just as it says on the tin, this allows you to access nodes in the document based on the value of a class attribute. This statement assigns any element with a class value of “column-a” to the variable firstColumn ...

We have earlier seen an introduction to DOM Nodes and Structures in JavaScript. Now let’s discuss some advanced DOM Management Concepts to make best use of it in Web Development. The document object in the DOM identifies the page itself, and more often than not will serve as the starting point for our DOM crawling. The document object comes with a number of standard properties and methods for accessing collections of elements. Just as length is a standard property of all arrays, the document object comes with a number of built-in properties containing information about the document. We then wind our way to the element ...