firstChild Property | Internet Development Index |
Retrieves a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object.
What's New for Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6
This property now applies to the
Syntax
HTML N/A Scripting [ oElement = ] object.firstChild
Possible Values
oElement Object that receives the first child object. The property is read-only. The property has no default value.
Example
This example implements the firstChild attribute to obtain the first child element of an object.
<SCRIPT> var oFirstChild = oList.firstChild; </SCRIPT> <BODY> <UL ID = oList> <LI>List Item 1 <LI>List Item 2 <LI>List Item 3 </UL> <BODY>
Standards Information
This property is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1
.
Applies To
A, ACRONYM, ADDRESS, APPLET, AREA, attribute, B, BASE, BASEFONT, BDO, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, COL, COLGROUP, COMMENT, DD, DEL, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, EMBED, FIELDSET, FONT, FORM, FRAME, FRAMESET, HEAD, hn, HR, HTML, I, IFRAME, IMG, INPUT type=button, INPUT type=checkbox, INPUT type=file, INPUT type=image, INPUT type=password, INPUT type=radio, INPUT type=reset, INPUT type=submit, INPUT type=text, INS, KBD, LABEL, LEGEND, LI, LINK, LISTING, MAP, MARQUEE, MENU, nextID, OL, OPTION, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, Q, S, SAMP, SCRIPT, SELECT, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, SUB, SUP, TABLE, TBODY, TD, TEXTAREA, TFOOT, TH, THEAD, TITLE, TR, TT, U, UL, VAR, XMP
See Also
lastChild, About the W3C Document Object Model