Join Christian Hur for an in-depth discussion in this video What is the DOM?, part of The DOM in JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, and React.
- [Instructor] So, what is the DOM?…The DOM is an acronym for Document Object Model.…It's an application program interface,…or API for HTML and XML documents.…In the DOM, web documents have a logical structure of…html elements which is very much like a tree.…To be more precise, it is usually represented…as an uprooted tree,…because the root is at the top,…and branches and leaves are at the bottom.…The root is the HTML element.…
The branches are all other elements,…and leaves are usually refer to the text and nodes.…Now most elements do contain text or content…but not all of them.…For example, VHR or the horizontal rule tag,…and the line break tag do not contain any content,…but most of them do.…Now, these diagrams are just models to represent the DOM,…so that we can have a better visualization…of what it might look like.…One thing for certain is that the DOM is not…a set of data structures.…
Data structures are things like arrays,…files, records and so forth,…that are designed to organize and store data.…It is just an object model that…
Author
Christian Hur
Released
8/14/2017- What is the DOM?
- Working with properties, objects, and methods
- Traversing the DOM tree
- Manipulating elements with JavaScript
- Adding, appending, and deleting nodes with JavaScript
- Selecting content in the DOM with jQuery
- Updating the DOM tree with jQuery or AngularJS
- Making live updates for content
- Understanding React's virtual DOM approach
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m
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What you should know6m 9s
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Using the exercise files1m 42s
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1. The DOM Tree
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Developer tools7m 12s
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What is the DOM?5m 18s
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The DOM tree5m 59s
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The Node interface10m 50s
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The Document object12m 8s
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The Document methods10m 27s
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Element objects10m 24s
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Modifying text in the DOM9m 16s
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Event objects11m 54s
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Window object6m 56s
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CSS properties and the DOM13m 50s
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Traversing the DOM tree10m 18s
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2. Manipulate the DOM with JavaScript
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Updating content in place4m 16s
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3. jQuery and the DOM
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jQuery application structure15m 12s
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Selecting content in the DOM10m 9s
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4. AngularJS and the DOM
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Angular application structure12m 15s
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Updating the DOM tree10m 25s
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From the DOM to directives11m 56s
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5. The React Virtual DOM
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React application structure10m 50s
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Encapsulating code in components20m 43s
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Live updates for content15m 57s
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Conclusion
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Next steps42s
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