The Document Object Model (DOM) is an API for HTML and XML documents. It provides a structural representation of the document, enabling you to modify its content and visual presentation. Essentially, it connects web pages to scripts or programming languages.
-http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM
The Document Object Model (DOM), part of the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 4.0 specification, strives to make every element on a page an identifiable object. Because the properties of that object are then readable and writeable, you can use a scripting language such as JavaScript to change, hide, or move the object's attributes. For example, if object #2 is an image, you can say "Move object #2 over here" and cause an image to move across a Web page. The DOM is way cool -- it provides the method to refer to and control objects.
-http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTip/id-4626.html
These are the two easiest explanations.
Hope this helps.
~Sovereign
can somebody explian to me what the DOM is, I know it stands for
"Document Object Model", and I read about it in wikipedia, but I still can understand exactly what it is.
I've also heard about dom scripting, which at first i thought it was dumb scripting...haha...but I would also like to know what that is.
Thanks, Marcelo.

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