DocumentFragment: 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.
The DocumentFragment.firstElementChild
read-only property
returns the document fragment's first child Element
, or null
if there
are no child elements.
Value
An Element
that is the first child Element
of the object, or null
if there are none.
Examples
js
let fragment = new DocumentFragment();
fragment.firstElementChild; // null
let paragraph = document.createElement("p");
fragment.appendChild(paragraph);
fragment.firstElementChild; // <p>
Specifications
Specification |
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DOM # ref-for-dom-parentnode-firstelementchild① |
Browser compatibility
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