jQuery and the document object model

The DOM defines a standard for accessing HTML and XML documents:

"The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document."

The following are some ways of DOM manipulation in jQuery:

  • text(): This sets or returns the text content of the selected elements
  • html(): This sets or returns the content of the selected elements
  • val(): This sets or returns the values of form fields

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