The NodeList.length
property returns the number of items in a NodeList
.
NodeList.length
Value
An integer value representing the number of items in a NodeList
.
Examples
The length
property is often useful in DOM programming. It's often used to test the length of a list, to see if it exists at all. It's also commonly used as the iterator in a for
loop, as in this example.
// All the paragraphs in the document const items = document.getElementsByTagName("p"); // For each item in the list, // append the entire element as a string of HTML let gross = ""; for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) { gross += items[i].innerHTML; } // gross is now all the HTML for the paragraphs
Specifications
Specification |
---|
DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-nodelist-length① |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
length |
1
|
12
|
1
|
5
|
≤12.1
|
1
|
1
|
18
|
4
|
≤12.1
|
1
|
1.0
|
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