Simply put, the DOM is a way to represent HTML or XML documents as nodes. This makes it easier for other programming languages to connect to a DOM-following page and modify it accordingly.
To be clear, DOM is not a programming language. DOM provides JavaScript with a way to interact with web pages. You can think of it as a standard. Every element is part of the DOM tree, which can be accessed and modified with APIs exposed to JavaScript.
DOM is not restricted to being accessed only by JavaScript. It is language-independent and there are several modules available in various languages to parse DOM (just like JavaScript) including PHP, Python, Java, and so on.
As said previously, DOM provides JavaScript ...
