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# HTMLElement and Node
The word **Node** can be referred back to Telecommunications Networks - *a device such as a computer or switch attached to a computer or telecommunications network, or a point in a network topology where lines intersect or terminate*. From there, it probably arrived in XML to represent any type of entity in a document e.g. a Comment node, a Text node, an Element node etc. Similarly, the representation of HTML DOM has various entities like tags, text content, comments, attributes etc. - all these are called **Nodes**.
With respect to HTML DOM, there are 12 different types of `Nodes`, out of which 5 are deprecated (). `HTMLElement` is a `Node` of type `1 (ELEMENT_NODE)`**.**
To construct these Nodes and build the DOM Tree, the browser implementations have Interfaces. The chain of these interfaces start at `Object` as the root.
Let's take an example to illustrate this.
```
Document Title
Some heading
Paragraph text goes here.
```
In the above DOM structure, ``is an instance of `HTMLHeadingElement`. The properties available on `` instance would be inherited in a fashion - `HTMLHeadingElement` << `HTMLElement` << `Element` << `Node` << `EventTarget` << `Object`. For example, the two DOM properties of the `` element (1) `.childNodes` and (2) `.children` are inherited from `Node`. Another interesting thing about these two similar sounding properties is the difference between their results. The former will list *any* type of `Node` (one text node, in this case) and the later will list `Node`only of type `1 (ELEMENT_NODE)` (none, in this case).
To summarize, every `HTMLElement` is a `Node` but not vice versa. The most common type of `Node` which is not an `HTMLElement` is `TEXT_NODE`.