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?

It has to have an id attribute

Question 2

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

The string parameter represents the specific id of the element.

Question 3

What does the document.getElementById() method return?

It returns a reference to the HTML element that has the specified id. If it doesn't have it, it returns null.

Question 4

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

That would be the document object.


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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