DOM(Document Object Model) concepts (DOM基础)

1. What is DOM?
    DOM is an abbrieviattion for  Document Object Model. DOM represent a page as a tree which consists of nodes. therefore , we can manipulate these nodes in order to modify and self-define  the representation or appearance of page. That is to say. all elements of  a page is regardes as a respective nodes. for example, normally. HTML is the ROOT node.
    DOm是文档对象模型的缩写。DOM将页面表示成为由多个节点构成的树。所以,我们可以通过操作树中的节点,来控制或者定义页面的显示样式。 也就是说,在DOM观点下,页面上所有元素都是节点。比如 ,一般来说,HTML是根节点。

2. a classic DOM Tree Demo.
    e.g. we got such the following html page, and which html code is shown as follows:
    例如,我们有如下所示的html页面,其html代码如下所示
 
<html>
    
<head>
        <title>DOM Test</title>
   
 </head>
    
<body>
        <h1> welcome to test DOM Tree
</h1>
        <p id="p1">Welcome ,you are the best one
            <a href="http://winston.cnblogs.com">click here to see me</a>
       
</p>
        <p>Dom is so powerful, what do u think about it
</p>
    
</body>
 </html>

and , the respevtive DOM tree should be like this:
则其相应的DOM Tree 应该为:(说明:节点中的值也为节点,其为textNode)

more about Nodes:(关于节电的说明)

Rememer, everything in a DOM tree is a node. Elements and text  are special kinds of nodes. but they are still nodes. Anytime you have a node, you can get the name of the node with nodeName, and the value of the node with nodeValue.
记住,再DOM 树中所有都是节点,元素和文本是两种不同类型的节点。但是他们都是节点。任何时候对于节点,我们都可以获得节点的value以及name。

you've got to be careful what type of node you're working on, though, or you could end up getting a null value when you'are expecting the name of an element or a string  of text. An element node has a name, like "div" or "img", but won't have a value, And a text node won't have a nodeName, but it will have a value: the actual text stored in the node.
尽管如此,我们还是要对所操作的节点类型要清楚。因为对于element node 来说,其没有nodeValue的值;同样,对于textNode来说,其没有nodeName这一值;当然,我们如果要获得其相应的属性不会错,只是我们只能得到null/undefined。
如下所示:
eg.
node            node type            nodeName         nodeValue
    p                element node    "p"                     null/undefined
    |
    |
    a                element node      "a"                     null/undefined
    |
    |
 "click here"      text node         null/undefined      "click here"

3. How to manipulate or get the related Nodes from DOM tree.
    怎样获得或者对DOM Tree中的节点进行操作。
    skill 1:How to get the whole tree of the page?如何获取整个页面的DOM Tree.
            We can get to the whole thing using the "document.docuementElement".
    comments: documentElement is a special property of the docuement object , it always return s the root element of the Dom Tree.  of course,in a html page, the root node is HTMO without doubt.

    skill 2: Find a specific element /node by its "id" attribute:通过ID获得特定的节点。
            We can use "document.getElementById(IdVariable) to find an element /node in our web page.
        eg.
        var p1Node=document.getElementById("p1");

    skill 3: Find a specific elment/node by its "tagName" attribute:通过TagName获取特定节点。
            we can use "docuemnt.getElementsByTag(tagname)[index] to find an element/node in our web page. just for mention, there are maybe more than one node with the same tagname, such as <a..> <div>, then we can specify the child index to fetch the specified one child node.
        eg.
        var pNode=document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];

    skill 4: How to get first child, last child, All Child nodes from a parent node.
            we can use childNodes property if a specific node to get all child nodes.
                            firstChild  -> first child node
                            lastChild  -> last child node
        eg.    
        p1Node.childNodes;
    
    skill 4:How to get the node name / node value.如何获得节点的name 或者value属性。
            we can use p1Node.nodeValue to get the textNode's value, of cs, we can also apply this to element Node, but we will get value of "null/ undefined".
            we can use p1Node.nodeName to get the element node's name.

    skill 5: How to get the property value of node?如何获得节点的属性值?
            we can use getAttributeNode(attributeName).nodeValue to set/get the specific node value.
    eg.
        p1Node.getAttribute("p1").nodeValue=****.

    skill 6: How to create a new element/text node and then add to a existed node as child?怎样创建一个新的节点,并且把该新的节点添加到已存在的节点下面作为孩子节点?
            createElement(elementName)  --> to create an element node;
            createTextNode(textnodeValue)  --> to create a text node with value textnodeValue
            createAttribute(attributeName)  --> to create a attributeNode named attriteName;
            setAttribute(pAttributeNode)-->set attribute node for a node;
            pNode.appendChild(pchildNode)  --> append pchildNode to pNode as a child node;

        eg. 
      
var   pNewElementChild=document.createElement("span");
      var  pNewTextNodeChild=document.createTextNode("click me ");
      var pAttributeNode=document.createAttribute("name");
            pAttributeNode.nodeValue="herengang";
            pNewElementChild.appendChild(pNewTextNodeChild);
            pNode.appendChild(pNewElementChild);
            pNode.setAttribute(pAttributeNode);
        
        the result is like this:
            <p>
                <span name="herengang">click me</span>
            </p>

posted on 2008-05-02 11:25  飞天舞者  阅读(773)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报

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