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Built-in objects are objects that are provided with JavaScript to make your life as a JavaScript developer easier. In many of the examples given in this book we have used the document.write() mechanism to write text to the current web page. Whether you knew it or not, you have been using the write() method of the JavaScript built-in document ''object'' when you have run these scripts.
Document Object Model (DOM) Objects provide the foundation for creating dynamic web pages. The DOM provides the ability for a JavaScript script to access, manipulate, and extent extend the content of a web page dynamically (i.e without having to reload the page). The DOM essentially presents the web page as a tree hierarchy of objects representing the contents and elements of the web page. The These objects, in turn, contaain contain ''properties'' and ''methods'' which allow you to access and change parts of the web page.
Custom objects are objects that you, as a JavaScript developer, create and use. Creating a custom object is possibly the best way to fully understand what objects are, so in this chapter we will by looking at how to create custom objects before covering the Built-in and DOM Objects in later chapters.
