What is DOM

DOM stands for Document Object Model.

DOM is a Web API that represents the structure of a web page as a tree of nodes.

• in memory data representation of the objects that comprise the structure and content of an HTML document on the web.

Represents a HTML structure as object, allowing developers to access and manipulate elements.

• scripting languages like Javascript to dynamically change content and style of a webpage.

DOM is NOT part of Javascript.

• However, Javascript needs DOM to work with the websites.