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Element.children[] (Collection)

The elements that are direct children of this element.

Availability:

JScript - 3.0
Internet Explorer - 4.0
Opera - 5.0
Property/method value type:Collection object
JavaScript syntax:IEmyElement.children

A collection of objects which are the immediate children of the receiving Element object. These objects generally represent HTML tags but there are other objects that are linked in to the DOM hierarchy that represent the fragments of text between the HTML tags.

See also:Collection object, Element object, Hierarchy of objects

Property attributes:

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