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?

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 represents the value of the id attribute of the element you want to retrieve

Question 3

What does the document.getElementById() method return?

It returns the element object that has the specified id, if it does not exist, null will be return.

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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