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Drupal and JavaScript
Nodes
Visually speaking, blocks typically show up as small bits of content. Nodes, in
contrast, can be thought of as the big pieces of content. Stories and pages—the two
types of content enabled by default in Drupal—are both types of nodes. Their role is
to hold and display large pieces of textual content.
In fact, that is the general purpose of a node: It encapsulates a piece of content
(usually a piece of text) and also provides additional information about that content.
Nodes typically have a body and a title. A node also tracks information about the
version of the node, the owner, creation date, and publishing state of a node. In short,
any information about that content is attached (in one way or another) to a node.
Most of the node information is stored in built-in Drupal tables in the
database. But custom node types can be defined either programmatically
(in code) or using modules such as the CCK (Content Construction
Kit). In such cases, information is indeed attached to a node, but the
underlying data storage mechanism is usually not limited to the built-in
Drupal node table. Data may be spread out in the database.
Let's take another look at the screenshot we saw earlier:
Right in the center of the page is the node object. In this case, it is a Page node
created by clicking on the Create content link visible in the Navigation block
on the left side, followed by clicking on the Page link.
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