DOM Enlightenment. Exploring JavaScript and the Modern DOM

With DOM Enlightenment, you'll learn how to manipulate HTML more efficiently by scripting the Document Object Model (DOM) without a DOM library. Using code examples in cookbook style, author Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) walks you through modern DOM concepts how to demonstrate various node objects work.

Over the past decade, developers have the buried DOM under frameworks that simplify its use. This book brings these tools back into focus, using concepts and native code to modern browsers. If you have JavaScript experience, you'll understand the role jQuery plays in DOM scripting, and learn how to use the DOM directly in applications for mobile devices and specific browsers that require low overhead.

Understand JavaScript node objects and their relationship to the DOM

Learn the properties and methods of document, element, text, and DocumentFragment objects

Delve into element node selecting, geometry, and inline styles

Add CSS style sheets to an HTML document and use CSSStyleRule objects

Set up DOM events by using different code patterns

Learn the author's vision for dom.js, a jQuery-inspired DOM Library for modern browsers