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title: HTML Dom
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## HTML Dom
With the HTML DOM, JavaScript can access and change all the elements of an HTML document.
When a web page is loaded, the browser creates a **D**ocument **O**bject **M**odel of the page.
The HTML DOM model is constructed as a tree of Objects:
Each element in the DOM is also called a node.
```html
<html>
<head>
<title> My title </title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#">My Link</a>
<h1> My header </h1>
</body>
</html>
```
The DOM for the above HTML is as follows:
![DOM tree](https://www.w3schools.com/js/pic_htmltree.gif)
With the object model, JavaScript gets all the power it needs to create dynamic HTML:
* JavaScript can change all the HTML elements in the page
* JavaScript can change all the HTML attributes in the page
* JavaScript can change all the CSS styles in the page
* JavaScript can remove existing HTML elements and attributes
* JavaScript can add new HTML elements and attributes
* JavaScript can react to all existing HTML events in the page
* JavaScript can create new HTML events in the page
#### More Information:
<a href='https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_htmldom.asp' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>W3C - HTML DOM</a>