Element: firstElementChild 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.
TheElement.firstElementChild read-only propertyreturns an element's first childElement, ornull if thereare no child elements.
Element.firstElementChild includes only element nodes.To get all child nodes, including non-element nodes like text and comment nodes, useNode.firstChild.
Value
AnElement object, ornull.
Examples
html
<ul> <li>First (1)</li> <li>Second (2)</li> <li>Third (3)</li></ul>js
const list = document.getElementById("list");console.log(list.firstElementChild.textContent);// logs "First (1)"Specifications
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| DOM # ref-for-dom-parentnode-firstelementchild① |