Document: firstElementChild property

The Document.firstElementChild read-only property returns the document's first child Element, or null if there are no child elements.

For HTML documents, this is usually the only child, the root <html> element.

See Element.firstElementChild for the first child element of specific elements within a document.

Value

A Element object, or null.

Examples

js
document.firstElementChild;
// returns the root <html> element, the only child of the document

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also