Document Object Model(DOM)

Shaila Nasrin
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2 min readMay 4, 2024

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In order to make html page interactive, html document has to be represented in a way so that JavaScript can query and update it. To do this Document Object Model(DOM) is used.

When the browser receives a html page it constructs a DOM to represent it.

What is DOM?

Document object model(DOM) is a tree structure of a model. For example we have a html document:

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