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January 10, 2001 - The Document's First Child

Yehuda Shiran January 10, 2001
The Document's First Child
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Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Internet Explorer does not support the firstChild property of the document object. In Netscape 6, the document object's first child (as well as its last child) is HTML. Click this button in Netscape 6, and see for yourself. Click in Internet Explorer and observe the error message:

Examine its last child:

The properties firstChild and lastChild are defined by the Document Object Model (DOM). Learn more about the DOM in Columns 40, The DOM, Part I: Analysis, through Column 47, A DOM-Based Snakes Game, Part II.