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domref

firstChild

firstChild returns the first node in the list of direct children of the document.

Syntax 

child = document.firstChild

Parameters

child is a node of the type element.

Example 

function fChild() {
 
  f = document.firstChild;
 
  alert(f.tagName);
 
} // returns: HTML

Notes

Note that you may have to recurse into the DOM tree with this property to get the the child nodes you expect, since HTML is almost always given as the first child of the document itself.

Specification

firstChild

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