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childElementCount property
Retrieves the number of immediate child nodes of the current element or a zero if the element does not contain any child nodes. childElementCount does not return all child nodes, only child nodes that are nodeType =1, or element nodes.
Syntax
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Property values
Type: Integer
The number of child elements.
Standards information
- Element Traversal Specification, Section 2.5
Remarks
The childElementCount property only returns immediate children of the current node. It does not count descendent children of the immediate children.
See also
- a
- abbr
- address
- area
- attribute
- b
- base
- bdo
- blockQuote
- body
- button
- caption
- cite
- code
- col
- colGroup
- comment
- dd
- del
- div
- dl
- dt
- em
- embed
- fieldSet
- form
- head
- hn
- hr
- html
- i
- iframe
- img
- input type=button
- input type=checkbox
- input type=file
- input type=image
- input type=password
- input type=radio
- input type=reset
- input type=submit
- input type=text
- ins
- kbd
- label
- legend
- li
- link
- map
- ol
- option
- p
- pre
- q
- s
- samp
- script
- select
- small
- span
- strong
- sub
- sup
- table
- tBody
- td
- textArea
- tFoot
- th
- tHead
- title
- tr
- u
- ul
- var
Build date: 11/28/2012
