dom-walk

What is dom-walk?

The dom-walk npm package is a utility for traversing and manipulating the DOM (Document Object Model) in a simple and efficient manner. It allows developers to walk through the DOM tree, either up or down, and apply functions or retrieve information from the DOM elements.

What are dom-walk's main functionalities?

Walking the DOM tree

This feature allows you to traverse all nodes within a specified DOM element (e.g., document.body). The function passed to walk will be called with each node as it is visited.

var walk = require('dom-walk');
var elements = [];
walk(document.body, function (node) {
  elements.push(node);
});

Collecting specific elements

This code demonstrates how to use dom-walk to collect all input elements from the DOM. It walks through the DOM and conditionally pushes nodes that are input elements into an array.

var walk = require('dom-walk');
var inputs = [];
walk(document.body, function (node) {
  if (node.tagName === 'INPUT') {
    inputs.push(node);
  }
});

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README

dom-walk

iteratively walk a DOM node

Example

var walk = require("dom-walk")

walk(document.body.childNodes, function (node) {
    console.log("node", node)
})

Installation

npm install dom-walk

Contributors

• Raynos

MIT Licenced