DOM and Events

When working with JavaScript you may encounter people or websites mentioning the DOM, you may ask yourself "what is DOM in JavaScript?". DOM stands for: Document Object Model. The DOM is basically a structured representation of HTML documents. This allows us to use JavaScript to access elements and styles of our HTML document and to manipulate them.

It is important to note that DOM is not part of JavaScript as JavaScript is part of the ECMA script dialect. The DOM and the DOM methods are actually part of Web APIs. These APIs are provided by the web browsers that we know and love ie: Chrome, Safari, FireFox, and others.