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Discussion on: Explain DOM Like I'm Five

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John Alcher

There's a ton of technicalities here, but when I was on your shoes (learning jQuery instead), I just swept DOM under the rug as a fancy way of saying "how HTML documents are structured". That way, phrases like traversing the DOM or fetching from the DOM made sense — my JavaScript code is doing some fancy stuff with HTML.