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The Document object

The Document object

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The Document object

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- [Instructor] The document interface represents the entire HTML document, and it contains the factory methods needed to create all objects in the document, such as all your body tags, the comment tags you see there, and the elements window, and all other tags and those that you may not see here, as well. The object name of this class is simply called document. Conceptually, the document object is the root of this document tree, or actually the root of any document, and it provides the primary access to everything you need to manipulate the DOM. So the document object has many properties, methods, and events, things like the document's location, its title, the children it has, and so on. So when you want to reference any of this node or element in the document using JavaScript, you must go through this document object. And there are many other properties, such as the head, the body, forms, images, and so on. Some of these are more prominent than the others. So let's take a look at…

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