W3C Document Object Model

Microsoft Corporation

Updated: October 13, 1998

On December 9, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released for public review the HTML DOM Working Draft , now a W3C recommendation. The purpose of the HTML DOM Recommendation is to specify an API for how Web builders and developers can access the Document Object Model to manipulate page elements and create dynamic effects. The specification states that the DOM should represent every HTML element as an object and every attribute as a property. This is consistent with Microsoft's implementation of the DOM in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.

For more information, be sure to check out the specification .