What’s the difference between the children and childNodes collections of a node? And childElementCount and childNodes.length?
What’s the difference between the children and childNodes collections of a node? And childElementCount
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What’s the difference between the children and childNodes collections of a node? And childElementCount and childNodes.length?
element.childNodesandelement.childNodes.length: includes child elements, text nodes (including whitespace nodes between elements) and comments (plus potentially CDATASections, ProcessingInstructions, DocumentTypes and EntityReferences, depending on the document and parser). Defined by the DOM Level 1 Core standard and has been available on every browser for many years.element.childrenandelement.childElementCount: includes only element nodes, so can be simpler to handle in some cases.childElementCountis defined by the Element Traversal API standard and is available in the latest versions of Mozilla, Opera and WebKit.childrenis not defined by any standard, but is available in IE and up-to-date versions of Mozilla, Opera, WebKit and IE.