# Proxy — Manipulating DOM nodes

> In this example we use Proxy to toggle an attribute of two different elements: so when we set the attribute on one element, the attribute is unset on the other one.

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In this example we use Proxy to toggle an attribute of two different elements: so when we set the attribute on one element, the attribute is unset on the other one.

We create a view object which is a proxy for an object with a selected property. The proxy handler defines the {{jsxref("Proxy/Proxy/set", "set()")}} handler.

When we assign an HTML element to view.selected, the element's 'aria-selected' attribute is set to true. If we then assign a different element to view.selected, this element's 'aria-selected' attribute is set to true and the previous element's 'aria-selected' attribute is automatically set to false.

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