Document Object Model
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Document Object Model (plural Document Object Models)
(Internet) A cross-platform, language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents.
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ActionScript 3.0 and Flash documents have a Document Object Model (DOM).
Document Object Model main Document Object Model (DOM) is an API that allows for navigation of the entire document as if it were a tree of node objects representing the document's contents.
It is used to write executable functions that are embedded in or included from HTML pages and interact with the Document Object Model (DOM) of the page, to perform tasks not possible in HTML alone.
The default scripting language is ECMAScript (closely related to JavaScript ) and there are defined Document Object Model (DOM) objects for every SVG element and attribute.
Each time you add (or remove) an element from a web page, you're accessing the DOM tree—the Document Object Model tree—that is the internal representation of the web page in the browser.
I was in London last week to deliver a one-day training course in JavaScript and the Document Object Model.