Document: children property
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
js
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
Specification |
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DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-parentnode-children① |
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