Understanding the DOM: A short guide to web pages structure

DOM, which stands for Document Object Model is a representation of a document (HTML) in a hierarchical form. It portrays a document using a tree-like model. Each element is viewed as an object and is related to other elements as parent or child. When writing HTML codes, there are elements that are placed under/within other elements. For example, an input element could be placed within a div tag. The Div tag acts as the parent while the input tag is …

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