10. Objects and the DOM
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Node manipulation is the W3C-recommended way for standards-compliant browsers to support Web pages that act more like applications than the standard, static pages that you’re used to. For instance, you can have pages that change based on entries the user makes, without hitting the server, and you can update pages under script control. Although you can use techniques like innerHTML, as we’ve done elsewhere in this book, here we show the officially supported approach. While this can also be done on the server side, it’s only with JavaScript ...
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