Categories: Element

javascript Element canHaveChildren

@March 15, 2008, 1:22 a.m.

canHaveChildren	Firefox/Netscape/NN n/a IE 5(Win) Chrome/Safari/DOM n/a
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Specifies whether the current element may act as a container of other elements. The property value is based on IE for Windows built-in HTML DTDs, which define several elements (such as <br>) that may not have child nodes inserted into them.

Example

if (elementRef.canHaveChildren) { // statements to insert or append child elements }

Value
Boolean value: true \| false.

Default
Element-specific.