DocumentFragment: 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 DocumentFragment.childElementCount read-only property returns the number of child elements of a DocumentFragment.

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

Value

A number representing the number of children of the document fragment.

Examples

js
let fragment = new DocumentFragment(); fragment.childElementCount; // 0 let paragraph = document.createElement("p"); fragment.appendChild(paragraph); fragment.childElementCount; // 1 

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# dom-parentnode-childelementcount

Browser compatibility

See also