Baseline Widely available
The Element.firstElementChild
read-only property returns an element's first child Element
, or null
if there are no child elements.
Element.firstElementChild
includes only element nodes. To get all child nodes, including non-element nodes like text and comment nodes, use Node.firstChild
.
An Element
object, or null
.
<ul id="list">
<li>First (1)</li>
<li>Second (2)</li>
<li>Third (3)</li>
</ul>
const list = document.getElementById("list");
console.log(list.firstElementChild.textContent);
// logs "First (1)"
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4