How to Get the Child Element of a Parent Using JavaScript? (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

To get a child element of a parent element in JavaScript, you can use several DOM (Document Object Model) methods, such as children, childNodes, querySelector(), or getElementById(). Here are different ways to access child elements based on the situation.

1. Using children property

The children property returns a live HTMLCollection of all child elements of a specified parent element. This property only returns elements (not text nodes, comments, etc.).

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