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DOM Manipulation Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet provides essential JavaScript DOM manipulation techniques, including selecting, modifying, creating, and removing elements. It covers methods for event handling and traversing the DOM, along with example code demonstrating these concepts. Key functions include document.getElementById, document.createElement, and element.addEventListener.

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DOM Manipulation Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet provides essential JavaScript DOM manipulation techniques, including selecting, modifying, creating, and removing elements. It covers methods for event handling and traversing the DOM, along with example code demonstrating these concepts. Key functions include document.getElementById, document.createElement, and element.addEventListener.

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Kalyan G V
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JavaScript DOM Manipulation Cheat Sheet

Selecting Elements
document.getElementById(id)
Selects an element by its ID.
const element = document.getElementById("myId");

document.getElementsByClassName(className)
Selects all elements with the given class.
const elements = document.getElementsByClassName("myClass");

document.getElementsByTagName(tagName)
Selects all elements with the given tag name.
const elements = document.getElementsByTagName("div");

document.querySelector(selector)
Selects the first element that matches the CSS selector.
const element = document.querySelector(".myClass");

document.querySelectorAll(selector)
Selects all elements that match the CSS selector.
const elements = document.querySelectorAll("p");

Modifying Elements
element.innerHTML
Gets or sets the HTML content inside an element.
element.innerHTML = "<b>Hello</b>";

element.textContent
Gets or sets the text content inside an element.
element.textContent = "Hello";

element.style.property = value
Modifies an inline CSS property.
element.style.color = "red";

Creating & Removing Elements


document.createElement(tagName)
Creates a new element.
const newDiv = document.createElement("div");

document.createTextNode(text)
Creates a new text node.
const textNode = document.createTextNode("Hello World");

element.appendChild(childNode)
Appends a child element to a parent.
parentElement.appendChild(newDiv);

Event Handling
element.addEventListener(event, function)
Adds an event listener to an element.
element.addEventListener("click", () => alert("Clicked!"));

event.preventDefault()
Prevents the default action of an event.
event.preventDefault();

event.stopPropagation()
Stops event bubbling up the DOM tree.
event.stopPropagation();

Traversing the DOM


element.parentElement
Selects the parent of an element.
const parent = element.parentElement;

element.children
Selects all child elements.
const children = element.children;

element.firstElementChild
Selects the first child element.
const firstChild = element.firstElementChild;

Example Code
Example JavaScript
Demonstrating DOM manipulation.

// Selecting an element
const title = document.getElementById("main-title");

// Modifying content
title.textContent = "Welcome to JavaScript DOM!";

// Adding a class
title.classList.add("highlight");

// Creating a new element


const newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
newParagraph.textContent = "This is a dynamically added paragraph.";
document.body.appendChild(newParagraph);

// Adding an event listener


title.addEventListener("click", () => {
alert("Title clicked!");
});

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