Element: childElementCount property
        
        
          
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      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>  | 
            
Browser compatibility
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