$dom is a tiny JavaScript library for selecting, traversing, styling and animating DOM elements.

Library features

• Lightweight - only 5k (2k when gzip'd)
• CSS selectors and animations
• DOM manipluation and traversal
• Element styling
• Completely unobtrusive

Browser support

• Internet Explorer 6+
• Google Chrome
• Firefox 3+ ^{(earlier versions TBC)}
• Safari 4+ ^{(earlier versions TBC)}
• Opera 9+ ^{(earlier versions TBC)}

Download the beta

This is a public beta release of the $dom JavaScript library. HTML documentation is included in the zip file. For examples, click the thumbnails below.

DOWNLOAD NOW v0.9.1b (public beta)

General DOM functions

• onready
• get
• create

DOM traversal functions

• descendants
• ancestor
• first
• last
• next
• previous

CSS / Animation functions

• addClass
• removeClass
• toggleClass
• hasClass
• style
• transform

What's wrong with jQuery, prototype, YUI etc?

Nothing! These JavaScript libraries are fantastic and they each have a phenomenal user base. $dom wasn't written to compete with the likes of jQuery, infact, feature wise, it doesn't even compare.

Limiting the feature set was really the point of writing $dom. With other libraries I found I was only ever using 10% of their features while still having to download 100% of their code.