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Live coding: The Document Object Model

Changing the DOM with JavaScript

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html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-GB">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Sandbox: Changing the DOM with JavaScript</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
    <script src="app.js" defer></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <main class="container">
      <h1>
        <a href="index.html">
          Sandbox: Changing the DOM with JavaScript
        </a>
      </h1>
      <section class="flex-container">
        
      </section>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>
js
const songs = [
  "Do They Know It's Christmas?",
  "Relax",
  "I Just Called to Say I Love You",
  "Two Tribes",
  "Don't You Want Me",
]

let flexContainer = document.querySelector('.flex-container')

for (let song of songs) {
  flexContainer.innerHTML += `<p>${song}</p>`
}

let h1 = document.querySelector('h1')
h1.textContent = h1.textContent + '!'

Creating a webpage from scratch from a data file

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html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-GB">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Creating a webpage from data with JS</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css" />
    <script defer type="module" src="app.js"></script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <h1 style="place-self: center">Creating a webpage from data with JS</h1>
    <p style="place-self: center">
      Open the browser console to see the program outputs.
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
js
export const data = [];
js
import { data } from './data.js';
console.log(data);

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