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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
DOM
# ref-for-dom-parentnode-childrenâ‘ 

Browser compatibility

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