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firstChild property
Gets a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object.
Syntax
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Property values
Type: Object
The first child object.
Standards information
- Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification, Section 1.2
Remarks
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and later. The attribute object supports this property.
Examples
The following code example implements the firstChild attribute to get the first child element of an object.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>firstChild</title> </head> <body> <ul id="oList"> <li>List Item 1</li> <li>List Item 2</li> <li>List Item 3</li> <li>List Item 4</li> </ul> <script> var oFirstChild = document.getElementById('oList').firstChild; console.log("The first UL child is actually a text node: " + oFirstChild); </script> </body> </html>
See also
- a
- abbr
- acronym
- address
- applet
- area
- attribute
- b
- base
- baseFont
- bdo
- big
- blockQuote
- body
- button
- caption
- center
- cite
- code
- col
- colGroup
- comment
- dd
- del
- dfn
- dir
- div
- dl
- documentType
- dt
- em
- embed
- fieldSet
- font
- form
- frame
- frameSet
- head
- hn
- hr
- html
- i
- iframe
- img
- input type=button
- input type=checkbox
- input type=email
- input type=file
- input type=image
- input type=number
- input type=password
- input type=radio
- input type=range
- input type=reset
- input type=search
- input type=submit
- input type=tel
- input type=text
- input type=url
- ins
- kbd
- label
- legend
- li
- link
- listing
- map
- marquee
- menu
- nextID
- ol
- option
- p
- plainText
- pre
- ProcessingInstruction
- q
- s
- samp
- script
- select
- small
- span
- strike
- strong
- sub
- sup
- table
- tBody
- td
- textArea
- tFoot
- th
- tHead
- title
- tr
- tt
- u
- ul
- var
- xmp
- Reference
- lastChild
- Conceptual
- About the W3C Document Object Model
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