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Best way to get child nodes

May 20, 2022 by IT Nursery

I was wondering, JavaScript offers a variety of methods to get the first child element from any element, but which is the best? By best, I mean: most cross-browser compatible, fastest, most comprehensive and predictable when it comes to behaviour. A list of methods/properties I use as aliases: var elem = document.getElementById(‘container’); var child = … Read more

How to set DOM element as the first child?

May 13, 2022 by IT Nursery

I have element E and I’m appending some elements to it. All of a sudden, I find out that the next element should be the first child of E. What’s the trick, how to do it? Method unshift doesn’t work because E is an object, not array. Long way would be to iterate trough E’s … Read more