DOM Traversal

How to climb up, down, and sideways the DOM.

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• Climb up and down the DOM
• Get sibling elements
• Filter nodes by selectors
• Detect when an element is in the viewport
• Calculate distances to the top of the bottom of the viewport

Learning Resources

• DOM Injection & Traversal Guide/Course
• Vanilla JS Academy
• The Toolkit
• Daily Developer Tips

Project Ideas

• Accordion - details
• Image Lazy Loader - details
• Table of Contents Component - details

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