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February 8, 2000 Cloning Elements Tips: February 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Cloning is one of the big advantages of the DOM (Document Object Model). Instead of generating from scratch, you can duplicate existing objects, using the clone() method.
Suppose we have a board of 300 identical squares, where each square is represented as an
And then by cloning it the number of times needed to fill the board:
We hook up these cloned objects to their proper father via the
Learn how to build a DOM-Based Snakes Game in Column 46, A DOM-Based Snakes Game, Part I .
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