Document: children property
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Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2017.
The read-only children property returns a live HTMLCollection
which contains all of the child elements of the document upon which it was called.
For HTML documents, this is usually only the root <html> element.
See Element.children for child elements of specific HTML elements within the document.
Value
An HTMLCollection which is a live, ordered collection of the DOM
elements which are children of the current document. You can access the
individual child nodes in the collection by using either the
item() method on the collection, or by using
JavaScript array-style notation.
If the document has no element children, then children is an empty list with a
length of 0.
Examples
document.children;
// HTMLCollection [<html>]
// Usually only contains the root <html> element, the document's only direct child
See Element.children for child elements of specific HTML elements within the document.
Specifications
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