dom creation

Question 1

Does the document.createElement() method insert a new element into the page?

Answer 1

no, it saves the element to a variable

Question 2

How do you add an element as a child to another element?

Answer 2

myParent.appendChild(myChild);

Question 3

What do you pass as the arguments to the element.setAttribute() method?

Answer 3

strings: name of attribute, value of attribute

Question 4

What steps do you need to take in order to insert a new element into the page?

Answer 4

create element to variable and append child

Question 5

What is the textContent property of an element object for?

Answer 5

gets and sets the text content for an element

Question 6

Name two ways to set the class attribute of a DOM element.

Answer 6

setAttribute() and className property

Question 7

What are two advantages of defining a function to do create something (like the work of creating a DOM tree)?

Answer 7

They are callable and repeatable

They can alter the page