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Alternative Style: Working With Alternat. So you’ve got a web page. You’ve marked it up with structural XHTML. You’ve also been a good little web developer and used style sheets to control what your document looks like. You’ve even gone the extra mile and created several alternative style sheets to show how hardcore you are. Article Continues Below Great. But now you need a cross-browser way to dynamically switch between the style sheets. Styling your site#section1 Style sheets can be associated with documents using a list of link elements in the head. Persistent#section2 These style sheets are always enabled (they are always “on”) and are combined with the active style sheet. To make the style sheet paul.css persistent, the following link element would be included in the head: Preferred#section3 These style sheets are enabled by default (they are “on” when the page is loaded).

To make a style sheet preferred, the rel attribute is set to “stylesheet” and the style sheet is named with the title attribute. Alternate#section4. JavaScript Libraries. QuirksMode - for all your browser quirks. JavaScript Tutorial. Gecko DOM Reference. The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for HTML and XML documents. It provides a structured representation of the document (a tree) and it defines a way that the structure can be accessed from programs so that they can change the document structure, style and content. The DOM provides a representation of the document as a structured group of nodes and objects that have properties and methods. Essentially, it connects web pages to scripts or programming languages.

Though often accessed using JavaScript, the DOM is not part of it and it can be used by other languages, though this is much less common. An introduction to the DOM is available. DOM interfaces Obsolete DOM interfaces The Document Object Model is in the process of being heavily simplified. HTML interfaces A document containing HTML is described using the HTMLDocument interface. HTML element interfaces Other interfaces Obsolete HTML intefaces SVG interfaces SVG element interfaces SVG data type interfaces Static type.

Ajax (programming) Ajax is not a single technology, but a group of technologies. HTML and CSS can be used in combination to mark up and style information. The DOM is accessed with JavaScript to dynamically display, and allow the user to interact with, the information presented. JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object provide a method for exchanging data asynchronously between browser and server to avoid full page reloads. In 1996, the iframe tag was introduced by Internet Explorer to load or to fetch content asynchronously. In 1998, Microsoft Outlook Web App team implemented the first component XMLHTTP by client script. Google made a wide deployment of standards-compliant, cross browser Ajax with Gmail (2004) and Google Maps (2005).[6] The term "Ajax" was publicly stated on 18 February 2005 by Jesse James Garrett in an article titled "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications", based on techniques used on Google pages.[1] get-ajax-data.js: send-ajax-data.php: jQuery example.

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