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What is DOM?
Imagine this 🤔 you are watching TV and you don't like the show that's being
streamed, and you want to change it and you also want to increase its volume.
To do that, there has to be a way for you to interact with your television. So how
do you control your tv now?
By using remote
The remote serves as the bridge which allows you interact with your television.
In the same way, JavaScript helps you to interact with the HTML page via DOM.
For example, say that you want a button to change colours when it gets clicked
or you want text to be changed. First, you need to reference those elements
from your JavaScript.
The DOM is a tree-like representation of the web page that gets loaded into the
browser.
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Whenever html document is loaded on browser, corresponding to that document
another representation of document is created which is known as DOM.
Let’s suppose you have this code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Text</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My Header</h1>
<p>My Paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
If you open this in browser the web browser creates a DOM of the webpage
when the page is loaded. The DOM model is created as a tree of objects like this
HTML meets 🤝 JS
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How to add JS inside HTML
<html>
<head>
<title>Connecting JS</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<script>
function doSomething(){
// Your Code Goes Here
}
</script>
Inside script tag you can write your js code
Console.log():
console.log() in javascript is your best friend life long
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Where to find your best friend ?
As you already know, you should use console inside your js code, so I am writing
console.log() in script tag
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My Header</h1>
<p>My Paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
<script>
console.log("Oh my Friend")
</script>
Now, where can I find my best friend
Step-1: Run HTML file on browser.
Step-2: Right click and click on inspect.
Step-3: You can see console beside Elements
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Now with help of your friend let’s see what is hiding in our document
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
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<h1>My Header</h1>
<p>My Paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
<script>
console.log(document)
</script>
Output
So console.log(document) returning entire document in object format
Write the following out in any page and see what the response is
// URL of a page
console.log(document.URL)
// title of a page
console.log(document.title)
// domain
console.log(document.domain)
// doctype
console.log(document.doctype)
// head
console.log(document.head)
// body
console.log(document.body)
// all elements
console.log(document.all)
// forms
console.log(document.forms)
// links
console.log(document.links)
// images
console.log(document.images)
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onClick Event:
The onclick event occurs when the user clicks on an element.
The onclick event executes a certain functionality when a button/element is

clicked.
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Basic onclick syntax:
<element onclick="functionToExecute()">Click</element>
Example:
<html>
<head>
<title>OnClick</title>
</head>
<body>
<button onClick="likeMe()">Like👍</button>
</body>
</html>
Now we need to define this function in javascript to make it work
<script>
function likeMe() {
console.log("Someone liked me")
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}
</script>
Now when we click on “Like” button, we will get “Someone liked me” in console
Let’s dry run it
Alert():
The alert() method in JavaScript is used to display a virtual alert box.
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It is mostly used to give a warning message to the users. It displays an alert
dialog box that consists of some specified message (which is optional) and an
OK button.
When the dialog box pops up, we have to click "OK" to proceed.
Syntax
alert(message)
In the above example instead of console, we will try to keep alert
<html>
<head>
<title>OnClick</title>
</head>
<body>
<button onClick="likeMe()">Like👍</button>
</body>
</html>
<script>
function likeMe() {
alert("Someone liked me")
}
</script>
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Output
Document.getElementById()
Syntax
document.getElementById(id_Name)
Parameters
id The ID of the element to locate. The ID is case-sensitive string which is
unique within the document; only one element may have any given ID.
Return value
An Element object describing the DOM element object matching the specified ID,
or null if no matching element was found in the document.
The Document method getElementById() returns an Element object representing

the element whose id property matches the specified string.
Example:
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p id="para">I am paragraph</p>
<div id="box">I am box</div>
<h1 id="head-1">I am heading 1</h1>
</body>
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</html>
<script>
console.log(document.getElementById("para"))
console.log(document.getElementById("box"))
console.log(document.getElementById("head-1"))
</script>
Output:
Read more : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-

US/docs/Web/API/Document/getElementById
innerText (or) textContent:

Did you remember in our first class we have discussed about HTML elements
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The content inside opening and closing tag is called as innerText also called as
textContent
The innerText property sets or returns the text content of an element.
Syntax
element.innerText
Example:
Let’s take previous example and try to get innerText of tags
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p id="para">I am paragraph</p>
<div id="box">I am box</div>
<h1 id="head-1">I am heading 1</h1>
</body>
</html>
<script>
console.log(document.getElementById("para").innerText)
console.log(document.getElementById("box").innerText)
console.log(document.getElementById("head-1").innerText)
</script>
Output:
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innerText vs innerHTML
innerText innerHTML
Retrieves and sets the content in plain Retrieves and sets the content in HTML
text. format.
It ignores the spaces. It considers the spaces.
It returns text without an inner element

It returns a tag with an inner element tag.
tag.
Example:
<i> tag is italic tag
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>innerText vs innerHTML</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="box">Welcome to <i> Masai School </i></div>
</body>
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</html>
<script>
console.log(document.getElementById("box").innerText)
console.log(document.getElementById("box").innerHTML)
</script>
Output:
From the above example you can clearly see that
innerText is retreiving only text inside tags
innerHTML is retreiving with HTML elements (<i> tag)
Changing innerText of an element

Javascript provides us with the innerText property that we can use to change the
text inside an element.
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Syntax:
element.textContent = "new_value" or
element.innerText = "new_value"
Example:
<html>
<body>
<h1 id="head">Heading 1</h1>
</body>
<script>
// change the text content in the heading
document.getElementById("head").textContent = "H1";
</script>
</html>
Example 2 : Codepen
Value:
Getting values from Input tags
In HTML introduction we have seen so many input tags.
We have also seen masai form
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To interact with user, we need to get the value of
Full name
Email
Password
How to get those values?
For getting those values we have an attribute in input tag known as value
which is by default empty.
<input type="text" value=""/>
Try to type in some value and check the output
<input type="text" value="Masai School"/>
Output:
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So, whatever we type in that input box, we can capture that in value attribute.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<input id="name" type="text" value="" />
<button onClick="catchValue()">Submit</button>
</body>
</html>
<script>
function catchValue() {
var studentName = document.getElementById("name").value;
console.log(studentName);
}
</script>
Output:
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Live code : Codepen
Example 2 : Codepen
Displaying data on Browser

Untill now we just got the value and displayed in console, but in real-world apps,
we need to show data to users also
Let’s take above example of taking input value of name from the user, instead of
consoling the name , let’s try to print name on browser.
For that let’s create <h1> tag in the body and we will try to fill in innerText
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<input id="name" type="text" value="" />
<button onClick="catchValue()">Submit</button>

<h1 id="output"></h1>
</body>
</html>
<script>
function catchValue() {
var studentName = document.getElementById("name").value;
document.getElementById("output").innerText = studentName;
}
</script>
Output:
Live code : Codepen
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Getting values from Select tags
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
</head>
<body>
<select id="gender">
<option value="">Select gender</option>
<option value="MALE">Male</option>
<option value="FEMALE">Female</option>
</select>
<button onClick="getGender()">Submit</button>
</body>
</html>
<script>
function getGender() {
var gen = document.getElementById("gender").value;
console.log(gen);
}
</script>
Live code : Codepen
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Let’s suppose you have this code

Inside script tag you can write your js code

Now, where can I find my best friend

Step-1: Run HTML file on browser.

Step-2: Right click and click on inspect.

Step-3: You can see console beside Elements

So console.log(document) returning entire document in object format

The onclick event occurs when the user clicks on an element.

The onclick event executes a certain functionality when a button/element is

Basic onclick syntax:

Now we need to define this function in javascript to make it work

Let’s dry run it

In the above example instead of console, we will try to keep alert

The Document method getElementById() returns an Element object representing

Read more : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-

innerText (or) textContent:

The innerText property sets or returns the text content of an element.

Let’s take previous example and try to get innerText of tags

It ignores the spaces. It considers the spaces.

It returns text without an inner element

From the above example you can clearly see that

innerText is retreiving only text inside tags

innerHTML is retreiving with HTML elements (<i> tag)

Changing innerText of an element

We have also seen masai form

How to get those values?

which is by default empty.

<input type="text" value=""/>

Try to type in some value and check the output

<input type="text" value="Masai School"/>

Displaying data on Browser

Live code : Codepen

Live code : Codepen

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