Manipulating the DOM (Object Document Model)

The DOM is a tree of JavaScript node objects.

Open the Web Developer Tools in your browser and open the console.

Writing to the DOM

create a strong element and write it to the DOM

document.getElementById('A').innerHTML = '<strong>Hello World</strong>';

Create a DIV element and text node to replace the span tag.

document.getElementById('B').outerHTML = '<div id ="B"> What's up</div>';

Add some text to div #C

document.getElementById('C').textContent = 'New content';

Create a text node and update div #D

document.getElementById('D').innerText = 'Updated content';

Create two element nodes

var elementNode = document.createElement('strong')var textNode = document.createTextNode('This text is strong')

Append the elementNode and textNode to the DOM

document.querySelector('p').appendChild(elementNode)document.querySelector('strong').appendChild(textNode)

Log all the HTML inside

document.body.innerHTML

Create two element nodes

var li = document.createElement('li')var text = document.createTextNode('Apples');li.appendChild(text)

Append the li and text nodes to the DOM

ul = document.querySelector('ul')ul.insertBefore(li, ul.firstChild)

Remove a child from its parent node

divA = document.getElementById('A')divA.parentNode.removeChild(divA)

Log document.body.innerHTML

Replace an element node

var divA = document.getElementById('A')var span = document.createElement('span')span.textContent = "Replacing text for DIV with #A"divA.parentNode.replaceChild(span, divA)

Replace a text node

var divB = document.getElementById('B')var newBText = document.createTextNode('New text for div #E')divB.parentNode.replaceChild(newBText, divB)

Traversing the DOM

Find the first & last child of the ULvar ul = document.querySelector('ul')ul.firstElementChild.nodeNameul.lastElementChild.nodeName

Find the next & previous sibling of the UL

ul.nextElementSibling.nodeNameul.previousElementSibling.nodeName

DOM Events

divA = document.getElementById('A')divA.onclick = function(){ console.log('You clicked me!') }