document

[SWEngineer]

I'm new to Javascript, and just want to ask, what do we mean by document when we say for example: document.getElementById("xyz");Thanks.

[chibineku]

The word document refers to the document object, which lets you access the elements of the DOM (document object model) from within scripts, for example it contains references to every div, paragraph, image, etc. and lets you select them by using a variety of methods, such as getElementsByName() or images[], which returns an array of all the images in the page. Watch this space for better, fuller explanations from the pros.