Document Object Model (DOM)

Table of contents

• History: Dynamic HTML
• Problems
• Additional Requirements
• Example XHTML Page
• Logical Structure
• DOM Objects
• DOM Levels
• XML vs. HTML
• Available Methods
• Traversal methods
• Example for Traversal Methods: Rewriting an Attribute
• The Program
• Rewriting the Element's Content
• Example: Rewriting a Page
• Complete Example
• Changing Document Structure
• Change the Structure
• From the Example
• Sorting a Table
• Non HTML (SVG) Example
• Namespace control (DOM Level 2)
• Event Management (DOM Level 2)
• Event Listeners
• Event Propagation: Capture
• Event Propagation: Bubbling
• Event Types
• Other usage of DOM