getElementsByTagName: To access elements and attributes using tag name. This method will return an array of all the items with the same tag name.

<html>

<head>

    <title>DOM!!!</title>

</head>

<body>

  <h3>Welcome</h3>

  <p>This is the welcome message.</p>

  <h3>Technology</h3>

  <p id="second">This is the technology section.</p>

  <script type="text/javascript">

    var paragraphs = document.getElementsByTagName("p");

    alert("Content in the second paragraph is " + paragraphs[1].innerHTML);

    document.getElementById("second").innerHTML = "The orginal message is changed.";

  </script>

</body>

</html>

Event handler Example

  1. createElement: To create new element
  2. removeChild: Remove an element
  3. you can add an event handler to a particular element like this
    document.getElementById(id).onclick=function()
        {
            lines of code to be executed
        }

OR

document.getElementById(id).addEventListener("click", functionname)

Example:

<html>
<head>
    <title>DOM!!!</title>
</head>
<body>
  <input type="button" id="btnClick" value="Click Me!!" />
  <script type="text/javascript">
    document.getElementById("btnClick").addEventListener("click", clicked);
    function clicked()
    {
            alert("You clicked me!!!");
    }    
  </script>
</body>
</html>