Element: 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 July 2015.
The Element.childElementCount read-only property returns the number of child elements of this element.
Examples
js
let sidebar = document.getElementById("sidebar"); if (sidebar.childElementCount > 0) { // Do something } Specifications
| Specification |
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| DOM # dom-parentnode-childelementcount |