The other day I was re-watching (haha, learning through repetition) "11 More Things I Learned from the jQuery Source" and this time I was quite amazed when Paul Irish talked about parseJSON. And the reason was the way jQuery makes the JSON object, it's clever, it's very clever.

Most of us believed, at least for some time, that in our DOM Scripting, we always dealt with arrays in our JavaScript:

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var myLinks = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); // we have three links

myLinks.length; // "3"

innerHTML is a read/write property of a DOM element that gets/sets the HTML contained in the element.

Manipulating elements

Once you have access to an element, you can manipulate it using assignment of object properties or DOM methods.