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  1. Document Object Model (DOM)
  2. Document
  3. Constructor
    1. Document()
  4. Instance properties
    1. activeElement
    2. adoptedStyleSheets
    3. alinkColor Deprecated
    4. all Deprecated
    5. anchors Deprecated
    6. applets Deprecated
    7. bgColor Deprecated
    8. body
    9. characterSet
    10. childElementCount
    11. children
    12. compatMode
    13. contentType
    14. cookie
    15. currentScript
    16. defaultView
    17. designMode
    18. dir
    19. doctype
    20. documentElement
    21. documentURI
    22. domain Deprecated
    23. embeds
    24. featurePolicy Experimental
    25. fgColor Deprecated
    26. firstElementChild
    27. fonts
    28. forms
    29. fragmentDirective
    30. fullscreen Deprecated
    31. fullscreenElement
    32. fullscreenEnabled
    33. head
    34. hidden
    35. images
    36. implementation
    37. lastElementChild
    38. lastModified
    39. lastStyleSheetSet Non-standard Deprecated
    40. linkColor Deprecated
    41. links
    42. location
    43. pictureInPictureElement
    44. pictureInPictureEnabled
    45. plugins
    46. pointerLockElement
    47. preferredStyleSheetSet Non-standard Deprecated
    48. prerendering Experimental
    49. readyState
    50. referrer
    51. rootElement Deprecated
    52. scripts
    53. scrollingElement
    54. selectedStyleSheetSet Non-standard Deprecated
    55. styleSheets
    56. styleSheetSets Non-standard Deprecated
    57. timeline
    58. title
    59. URL
    60. visibilityState
    61. vlinkColor Deprecated
    62. xmlEncoding Deprecated
    63. xmlVersion Deprecated
  5. Static methods
    1. parseHTML()
    2. parseHTMLUnsafe()
  6. Instance methods
    1. adoptNode()
    2. append()
    3. browsingTopics() Experimental Non-standard
    4. caretPositionFromPoint()
    5. caretRangeFromPoint() Non-standard
    6. clear() Deprecated
    7. close()
    8. createAttribute()
    9. createAttributeNS()
    10. createCDATASection()
    11. createComment()
    12. createDocumentFragment()
    13. createElement()
    14. createElementNS()
    15. createEvent() Deprecated
    16. createExpression()
    17. createNodeIterator()
    18. createNSResolver() Deprecated
    19. createProcessingInstruction()
    20. createRange()
    21. createTextNode()
    22. createTouch() Non-standard Deprecated
    23. createTouchList() Non-standard Deprecated
    24. createTreeWalker()
    25. elementFromPoint()
    26. elementsFromPoint()
    27. enableStyleSheetsForSet() Non-standard Deprecated
    28. evaluate()
    29. execCommand() Deprecated
    30. exitFullscreen()
    31. exitPictureInPicture()
    32. exitPointerLock()
    33. getAnimations()
    34. getElementById()
    35. getElementsByClassName()
    36. getElementsByName()
    37. getElementsByTagName()
    38. getElementsByTagNameNS()
    39. getSelection()
    40. hasFocus()
    41. hasStorageAccess()
    42. hasUnpartitionedCookieAccess()
    43. importNode()
    44. moveBefore() Experimental
    45. mozSetImageElement() Non-standard
    46. open()
    47. prepend()
    48. queryCommandEnabled() Non-standard Deprecated
    49. queryCommandState() Non-standard Deprecated
    50. queryCommandSupported() Non-standard Deprecated
    51. querySelector()
    52. querySelectorAll()
    53. releaseCapture() Non-standard
    54. replaceChildren()
    55. requestStorageAccess()
    56. requestStorageAccessFor() Experimental
    57. startViewTransition()
    58. write() Deprecated
    59. writeln() Deprecated
  7. Events
    1. afterscriptexecute Non-standard Deprecated
    2. beforescriptexecute Non-standard Deprecated
    3. DOMContentLoaded
    4. fullscreenchange
    5. fullscreenerror
    6. pointerlockchange
    7. pointerlockerror
    8. prerenderingchange Experimental
    9. readystatechange
    10. scroll
    11. scrollend
    12. scrollsnapchange Experimental
    13. scrollsnapchanging Experimental
    14. securitypolicyviolation
    15. selectionchange
    16. visibilitychange
  8. Inheritance
    1. Node
    2. EventTarget
  9. Related pages for DOM
    1. AbortController
    2. AbortSignal
    3. AbstractRange
    4. Attr
    5. CDATASection
    6. CharacterData
    7. Comment
    8. CustomEvent
    9. DOMError Deprecated
    10. DOMException
    11. DOMImplementation
    12. DOMParser
    13. DOMPoint
    14. DOMPointReadOnly
    15. DOMRect
    16. DOMTokenList
    17. DocumentFragment
    18. DocumentType
    19. Element
    20. Event
    21. EventTarget
    22. HTMLCollection
    23. MutationObserver
    24. MutationRecord
    25. NamedNodeMap
    26. Node
    27. NodeIterator
    28. NodeList
    29. ProcessingInstruction
    30. Range
    31. StaticRange
    32. Text
    33. TextDecoder
    34. TextEncoder
    35. TimeRanges
    36. TreeWalker
    37. XMLDocument
  10. Guides
    1. Introduction to the DOM
    2. Using the Document Object Model
    3. Attribute reflection
    4. Traversing an HTML table with JavaScript and DOM Interfaces
    5. Locating DOM elements using selectors
    6. Transforming with XSLT
    7. Examples of web and XML development using the DOM
In this article Document: childElementCount property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2018.

The Document.childElementCount read-only property returns the number of child elements of the document.

To get the number of children of a specific element, see Element.childElementCount.

Value

A number.

Examples

js

document.children;
// HTMLCollection, usually containing an <html> element, the document's only child

document.childElementCount;
// 1
Specifications Specification DOM
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