posted 23 years ago
In very simple terms the DOM standing for Document Object Model is the model for all of the objects in your page. So every tag is its own object with properties and characteristics like the body tage has marginheight and bgcolor and the a tag has href and alt text. This is one area where IE excels over Netscape (however I believe Netscape 6.0 is better than older versions of Netscape). In IE, every tag is part of the DOM, body tags, form tags, form element tags, etc... but with Netscape they didn't make every element part of the DOM so you can't access certain elements with javascript like the b tag.
To access an item, you just give it a name, like <td name=r1c1> then you can use javascript to say chang the text of r1c1. I can't remember what tags are supported by netscape, so I tend to use div tags for most things since that is supported by both.
Do a search for the DOM on most search engines and see what you find.
Bill