> I have head alot about DOM and DOM inspectors. I have also played
> around with Fire Fox and looked throughout the DOM interface, but I am
> still not qute sure of the benefit of it and if it has anything to do
> with CSS although I can see the sructuring of it.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction.
>
> I became even more curious after hearing Eric Meyers briefly mention
> "how cool" the tool was, but he did not go to far into it.
> Thanks

The DOM inspector shows you how the page is structured, and allows you
to delete or move parts of it. It highlights elements with blinking
borders when you click them, which is very good for finding the
culprit of a layout glitch.

A more hands-on version is the Aardvark extension for Firefox:
http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/

The DOM itself is good for reaching and changing element on the fly,
or even creating new ones:
http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/
HTH

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Chris Heilmann
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