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Value

An integer value representing the number of items in a HTMLCollection.

Examples

The length property is often useful in DOM programming. It's often used to test the length of a list, to see if it exists at all. It's also commonly used as the iterator in a for loop, as in this example.

js

// All the elements with the class ".test" in the document
const items = document.getElementsByClassName("test");
// For each test item in the list,
// append the entire element as a string of HTML
let gross = "";
for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
  gross += items[i].innerHTML;
}
// gross is now all the HTML for the test elements

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# ref-for-dom-htmlcollection-length①

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