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What is the difference between DOM and HTML?
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The HTML DOM is a standard object model and programming interface for HTML. It defines: The HTML elements as objects. The properties of all HTML elements.
The HTML attribute value specifies the initial value; the DOM value property is the current value.
The DOM represents the document as nodes and objects; that way, programming languages can interact with the page. A web page is a document that can be either displayed in the browser window or as the HTML source.
The notions between a page's source and a page's DOM are similar, but different. The source is the raw HTML that is unadulterated by any client-side scripts. It is the direct response of the HTTP request to the server. The DOM, on the other hand, is the same HTML structure that has been modified by JavaScript.
DOM is a model of a document with an associated API for manipulating it.
HTML is a markup language that lets you represent a certain kind of DOM in text.
Other kinds of DOMs can be expressed in other markup languages, for example RSS and Atom can be converted to a DOM and manipulated with the same API as an HTML or XHTML document (more or less anyway; there are some HTML specific DOM extensions).
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