Browser & Web Performance · Junior · Question 2 of 75

What does the browser build from the HTML it parses?

1The CSSOM, a tree of style rules
2The render tree directly, skipping the DOM
✓Correct answer: The DOM, a tree of nodes for the document

Explanation

HTML is tokenized into nodes that form the DOM. CSS is parsed separately into the CSSOM; both are combined later.

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