FAQ: The Document Object Model - What is the DOM?

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This community-built FAQ covers the “What is the DOM?” exercise from the lesson “The Document Object Model”.

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why we knew DOM as a language-agnostic structure? but we know it’s structure as well

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There is some conflict in the given definitions of the DOM. The video given defines the DOM as an organization of the html content as objects in a tree like structure. While the article that follows the video says ’ The DOM is a logical tree-like Model that organizes a web page’s HTML Document as an Object.’
The definitions are slightly different because one is saying that it is multiple objects while the other says it’s a single object.
Which is correct?

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Object contains properties. All properties are objects.
The document object is object of objects. It has html elements, properties and even events. They are organized into objects.