Is a standard format, developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), that browsers use to represent a web page.
W3C describes it as “a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document.”
Parts
The DOM standard is separated into 3 parts:
- Core DOM: standard model for all document types
- XML DOM: standard model for XML documents
- HTML DOM: standard model for HTML documents