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HTML DOM childElementCount Property

Element Object Reference Element Object

Example

Find out how many child elements a <div> element has:

var x = document.getElementById("myDIV").childElementCount;

The result of x will be:

2
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Definition and Usage

The childElementCount property returns the number of child elements an element has.

Note: The returned value contains the number of child element nodes, not the number of all child nodes (like text and comment nodes).

This property is read-only.

Tip: Use the children property to return any child element of a specified element.

Tip: The childElementCount property will produce the same result as element.children.length.


Browser Support

Property
childElementCount 2.0 9.0 3.5 4.0 10.0

Syntax

node.childElementCount

Technical Details

Return Value: A Number, representing the number of child elements of an element
DOM Version Core Level 3 Element Traversal

Element Object Reference Element Object