document.getElementById(’id’) : Retrieves the element with the given id as an object.
document.getElementsByTagName(’tagname’) : Retrieves all elements with the tag name tagname and stores them in an array-like list.
node.getAttribute(’attribute’) : Retrieves the value of the attribute with the name attribute
node.setAttribute(’attribute’, ‘value’) : Sets the value of the attribute with the name attribute to value
node.nodeType : Reads the type of the node (1 = element, 3 = text node)
node.nodeName : Reads the name of the node (either element name or #textNode)
node.nodeValue : Reads or sets the value of the node (the text content in the case of text nodes)
node.previousSibling : Retrieves the previous sibling node and stores it as an object.
node.nextSibling : Retrieves the next sibling node and stores it as an object.
node.childNodes : Retrieves all child nodes of the object and stores them in an list. here are shortcuts for the first and last child node,named node.firstChild and node.lastChild .
node.parentNode : Retrieves the node containing node .
document.createElement(element) : Creates a new element node with the name element . You provide the name as a string.
document.createTextNode(string) : Creates a new text node with the node value of string.
newNode = node.cloneNode(bool) : Creates newNode as a copy (clone) of node. If bool is true, the clone includes clones of all the child nodes of the original.
node.appendChild(newNode) : Adds newNode as a new (last) child node to node.
node.insertBefore(newNode,oldNode) : Inserts newNode as a new child node of node before oldNode .
node.removeChild(oldNode) : Removes the child oldNode from node.
node.replaceChild(newNode, oldNode) : Replaces the child node oldNode of node with newNode .
element.innerHTML : Reads or writes the HTML content of the given element as a string—including all child nodes with their attributes and text content.
getAttribute and setAttribute are not reliable. Instead, assign the property of the element object directly: obj.property = value .
Furthermore, some attributes are actually reserved words, so instead of class use className and instead of for use HTMLfor .
Real DOM compliant browsers will return linebreaks as text nodes in the childNodes collection, make sure to either remove them or test for the nodeType .