DOM Manipulation with JavaScript

Introduction

To achieve interactivity, JavaScript must manipulate the DOM. Because the DOM is tree-like nature, we will cover each of the following steps.

• Querying and selecting a certain element in the DOM

• Traversing elements in the DOM

• Creating an element in the DOM

• Updating an element in the DOM

• Removing an element in the DOM

Let’s go over each of these to become more comfortable creating dynamic web pages.