It then has a sibling relationship with other objects linked, embedded, and nested in the same object. It can inherit properties from its parent and share them with its siblings. An object can also be named, which means it can be scripted. The scripting comes in as series of events. If you hover your cursor over one of the moving parts, that's an event.
Some red text appears, another event.
You can also think of the objects as actors and props that can get scripted. To learn more, you can turn to the official specs from the W3C, but as usual, they're written in less than clear English. Webmonkey has a clear, concise explanation . Learn more about the DOM . XML Perhaps intent is a more accurate wording.