HOUR 14:Using Advanced DOM Features

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Using the properties of DOM nodes

• Understanding DOM node methods

• Hiding and showing objects within a page

• Modifying text within a page

• Adding text to a page

• Creating a dynamic navigation tree

During this hour, you will take a closer look at the objects in the DOM, and the properties and methods you can use to control them. You will also explore several examples of dynamic HTML pages using these DOM features.

Working with DOM Nodes

As you learned in Hour 13, “Using the W3C DOM,” the DOM organizes objects within a web page into a tree-like structure. Each node (object) in this tree can be accessed in JavaScript. In the next sections ...

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