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