<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>My Page</title> </head> <body> <!-- Page Body --> <h2>My Page</h2> <p id="content">Thank you for visiting my web page!</p> </body> </html>
<html>
is a node in the document tree. It has 2 child nodes: <head>
and <body>
. <p><body>
A node with 3 child nodes: Comment node <!-- Page Body -->
, Title< h2>
, paragraph <p>
. The parent node of the <body>
node is the <html>
node. <p>The tag in the HTML document represents a node. Interestingly, ordinary text is also a node. Paragraph node <p>
has 1 child node: text node "Thank you for visiting my web page!"
. Node.nodeType
attribute. <p>Node.nodeType
can have one of the following values representing the node type: Node.ELEMENT_NODE
represents element nodes, Node.TEXT_NODE
represents the text node, Node.DOCUMENT_NODE
the document node, and so on. <p>For example, let us select the paragraph node and view its nodeType
attribute: const paragraph = document.querySelector('p'); paragraph.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE; // => true
Node.DOCUMENT_NODE
:document.nodeType === Node.DOCUMENT_NODE; // => true
element (Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
, as well as types such as document, comment, text, etc. <p>In short, elements are nodes written using markup in an HTML document. <html>
, <head>
, <title>
, <body>
, <h2> ;
, <p>
are all elements because they are represented by tags. <p>Document type, comment, text nodes are not elements because they are not written using tags: <p>Node
is the constructor of the node, HTMLElement
is Constructor for elements in JS DOM. A paragraph is both a node and an element, it is an instance of both Node
and HTMLElement
const paragraph = document.querySelector('p'); paragraph instanceof Node; // => true paragraph instanceof HTMLElement; // => true
NodeList
): node.parentNode; // Node or null node.firstChild; // Node or null node.lastChild; // Node or null node.childNodes; // NodeList
HTMLCollection
): node.parentElement; // HTMLElement or null node.children; // HTMLCollection
node.childNodes
and node.children return a list of children, why do you have both properties? good question! <p>Consider the following paragraph element containing some text: <p> <b>Thank you</b> for visiting my web page! </p>
childNodes
and children
properties of the paragraph node: const paragraph = document.querySelector('p'); paragraph.childNodes; // NodeList: [HTMLElement, Text] paragraph.children; // HTMLCollection: [HTMLElement]
paragraph.childNodes
The collection contains 2 nodes: <b>Thank you</b>
, and for visiting my web page!
textnode!
<p>However, the paragraph.children
collection contains only 1 item: <b>Thank you</b>
.
<p>Since paragraph.children
only contains elements, the text node is not included here because its type is text (Node.TEXT_NODE
), not element (Node.ELEMENT_NODE
).
<p>Having both node.childNodes
and node.children
, we can choose the set of children to access: all child nodes or only children that are elements.
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