Object-Oriented JavaScript - Second Edition

Summary

You learned quite a bit in this chapter. You have learned some cross-browser BOM (Browser Object Model) objects:

• Properties of the global window object such as navigator, location, history, frames, screen
• Methods such as setInterval() and setTimeout(); alert(), confirm() and prompt(); moveTo/By() and resizeTo/By()

Then you learned about the DOM (Document Object Model), an API to represent an HTML (or XML) document as a tree structure where each tag or text is a node on the tree. You also learned how to do the following actions:

• Access nodes
  • Using parent/child relationship properties parentNode, childNodes, firstChild, lastChild, nextSibling, and previousSibling
  • Using getElementsById(), getElementsByTagName(), getElementsByName(), and querySelectorAll() ...