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DOM

Web

A tree representation of an HTML document the browser builds.

The Document Object Model (DOM) is an in-memory tree of nodes representing the structure of an HTML or XML document. JavaScript manipulates the DOM to read and change page content, structure, and styling dynamically.

Related Web terms

CSS

A language for styling the presentation of web pages.

 REST

An architectural style for designing networked APIs.

 Webhook

A user-defined HTTP callback triggered by an event.

 API

A set of rules that lets software components communicate.

 HTTP

The protocol browsers and servers use to exchange data.

 JSON

A lightweight, text-based data-interchange format.
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