Question

Is it possible to get a child dom element, which will be the first child of a specific type.

For example in both of these examples I want to get the img element:

<a id="mylink" href="#"><img src="myimage.jpg" /></a>

vs.

<a id="mylink" href="#"><span></span><img src="myimage.jpg" /></a>

Answer 1

Try this

var firstIMG = document.getElementById('mylink').getElementsByTagName('img')[0];