Exploring JavaScript and the Modern DOM
by Cody Lindley
Cody Lindley delivers a cookbook of concrete code examples showing how node objects work and how to manipulate HTML without a DOM library. it reads as practical and example-heavy: most chapters solve narrow, real-world DOM tasks with runnable snippets. Its useful part is as a do-it-in-the-editor companion for debugging or stripping jQuery-style shortcuts. Main limitation: the text can repeat similar patterns and linger on API minutiae, so readers seeking architectural guidance or conceptual overviews may feel the scope is narrow.
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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 to demonstrate how various node objects work.Over the past decade, developers have buried ...
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