javascript childNodes Description

The object returned by the childNodes property of several W3C DOM objects is a collection (array) of references to Node objects that are immediate children of the current node object. In the W3C DOM structure, the abstract representation of this array is called the NodeList object, which shares some properties and methods of the IE childNodes object. Since both objects refer to the same parts of a document tree, they are treated here together. Collection members are sorted in source code order.