DHTML Collections

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Retrieves a collection of the direct descendants of an object.

[ collChildren = ] object.children

[ oObject = ] object.children ( vIndex [ , iSubIndex ] )

collChildren	Reference to an array of elements contained by the object.
oObject	Reference to an individual item in the array of elements contained by the object.
vIndex	Required. Number or string specifying the element or collection to retrieve. If this parameter is a number, the method returns the element in the collection at the given position, where the first element has value 0, the second has 1, and so on. If this parameter is a string and there is more than one element with the name or id property equal to the string, the method returns a collection of matching elements.
iSubIndex	Optional. Position of an element to retrieve. This parameter is used when vIndex is a string. The method uses the string to construct a collection of all elements that have a name or id equal to the string and then retrieves from this collection the element at the position specified by iSubIndex.

Similar to the all collection, the objects contained in the children collection are undefined if the child elements are overlapping tags.

The following example illustrates what this collection would return.

<div id = ""div1"">
   <img src = "mygif.gif">
   <div id = "div2">
      <p>some text in a paragraph
   </div>
   <button> the label for the button </button>
</div>

The children collection for div1 would include IMG, DIV, and BUTTON. The children collection for div2 would include P.