NodeList: length 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 NodeList.length property returns the number of items in a NodeList.

Value

An integer value representing the number of items in a NodeList.

Examples

The length property is often useful in DOM programming. It's often used to test the length of a list, to see if it exists at all. It's also commonly used as the iterator in a for loop, as in this example.

js
// All the paragraphs in the document const items = document.getElementsByTagName("p"); // For each item in the list, // append the entire element as a string of HTML let gross = ""; for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) { gross += items[i].innerHTML; } // gross is now all the HTML for the paragraphs 

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# ref-for-dom-nodelist-length①

Browser compatibility