DOM Objects Worksheet

Question 1

In order to use the document.getElementById() method to 'get a handle' on an element, what attribute must that element have?

The element must have an id attribute.

Question 2

When you invoke document.getElementById(), you must pass in a string parameter. What does the parameter represent?

The parameter is the id value of the element you want to get.

Question 3

What does the document.getElementById() method return?

document.getElementById returns the element object from the page (or null if it is not found).

Question 4

What object is at the top of the DOM? In other words, what DOM object contains all other DOM objects?

The document object is at the top of the DOM and contains all other DOM objects.


Coding Problems

You'll use the following elements to complete the coding problems:

Problem 1


Problem 2
A bald eagle

Problem 3
This is myDiv


Problem 4

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