interacting with the dom (javascript)

Interacting with the DOM

- Professor Flo

What does DOM stand for?• The DOM is short for the “Document Object Model”

• in the DOM everything is a node.

• The Document it self is a node.

• HTML Elements are nodes

• attributes are nodes

• text elements are node,

• EVERYTHING IS A NODE !!!

This is a Document

This is a Document

You get the Picture

Every Page You View in Your Browser is a

Document

Now let’s take a look at DOM Structure

The DOM TREEagain, every element is a node, html, attributes, txt, etc.

Selecting Elements from the DOM

Get Element By ID

• document.getElementById(‘myID’); // Javascript Example

• How it looks in html <div id=“myID”>

Get Elements by Tag Names• var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(‘div’);

• HTML this will select all the <divs> on your page

• var paragraphs = document.getElementsByTagName(‘p’); // selects all the p tags on your page, etc.

• How to select the various first element of a series

• var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(‘div’)[0]; // similar to how you access the index of an array

document.querySelector

• var class = document.querySelector(“.myclass”);

• HTML example <p class=“myclass”> selects the p tag with the my class css class.

• var id = document.querySelector(“#myID”);

• HTML example selects the paragraph with the id of myID <p id=“myID”>

querySelectorAll• var ended = document.body.querySelectorAll(‘div’);

• // The above example returns all the divs in the body tag

• var el = document.querySelector(‘#test’);

• var matches = el.querySelectorAll(‘div.highlighted > p’)

• // This example returns a list of p children elements under the highlighted container div

• HTML Example <div class=“highlighted”><p></p></p>

• </div><p></p> // Will select ONLY the p’s inside highlighted div not the paragraph outside of that.

Creating Elements in the DOM via javascript

! // Syntax for Creating an Element ! // var element = document.createElement(tagName); ! var floSpecialDiv = document.createElement(‘div’); ! var text = document.createTextNode(‘JavaScript on Fleek’); ! floSpecialDiv.appendchild(text);

HaHa Awesome. Got all the Nuts and Bolts out the Way now time for Javascript Events

The Onclick Event

• HTML <div id=“ClickMe”></div>

• javascript

• document.getElementById(‘ClickMe’).onclick=function(){ alert(‘You clicked the click me’);}

A Cleaner way addEventListener

• var whatsClickin = document.getElementById(‘ClickMe’);

• whatClickin.addEventListener(‘click’, function(){

• alert(‘You Clicked on me’);}, false);

Properties of AddEventListener

• // Event Listener Syntax

• // element.addEventLister(“click”, function(){},useCapture);

• // target.addEventListener(type, listener[, useCapture

Alright let’s Start Coding in Paradise :)