Core interfaces in the DOM

These are some of the important and most commonly used interfaces in the DOM. These common APIs are used in the longer examples of DOM. You will often see the following APIs, which are types of methods and properties, when you use DOM.

The interfaces of document and window objects are generally used most often in DOM programming. In simple terms, the window object represents something like the browser, and the document object is the root of the document itself. The element inherits from the generic node interface and, together, these two interfaces provide many of the methods and properties you use on individual elements. These elements may also have specific interfaces for dealing with the kind of data those elements hold, as in the table object example.