Run
Tutorial With Example
Run your live code
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Javascript Accessing the Child Nodes</title> </head> <body> <div id="main"> <h1 id="title">My Heading</h1> <p id="hint"><span>This is some text.</span></p> </div> <script> var main = document.getElementById("main"); console.log(main.firstChild.nodeName); // Prints: #text var hint = document.getElementById("hint"); console.log(hint.firstChild.nodeName); // Prints: SPAN </script> </body> </html>