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The Sandbox

Some divs and paragraphs

Hello, here is a paragraph inside a div.

This paragraph looks the same, but it's not inside a div. Oh and look, it has a link to the page itself.

Oh and here is some text just directly in a div.

Some nested lists

These are to show the use of > in CSS selectors

A list of awesome links here:
- asdf and more text
- foo bar baz
- blublublubb
Nothing interesting here
Even less interesting, but as an ordered list this time:
1. Stuff
2. More stuff
3. The rest
And a last pointless point (or square, actually).

JavaScript and the DOM

JavaScript itself is actually just the Variables and Values, the Numbers and Strings, the Functions with their arguments and a few other things, but pure JavaScript does not have any way to get input from the user or to show output.

But but!!, you're gonna say, We made it show things! and you're right, but everytime we were able to do that, we "cheated" a little and were not using pure JS.

Let's take, as an example, the document.getElementById function and the .textContent attribute; Those are not part of JS, but instead belong to the so called DOM. The DOM is the way we can access the document from JS, or, as programmers say, it is our "interface" to it.

So to make JS do anything useful at all on a webpage, we can't avoid using the DOM. Let's see the type of some "native" JS things (meaning they are part of the language itself) and compare that to things we access through the DOM then.

Output:

---Logbox---