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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">children</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal"></p>
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						<p>A collection of all elements contained in the current element. Note
that unlike the <span class="literal">childNodes</span> collection,
<span class="literal">children</span> counts only elements and not text nodes.
Collection members are sorted in source code order. Internet Explorer
lets you use array notation or parentheses to access a single element
in the collection.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>document.getElementById("<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>").children(i)
document.getElementById("<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>").children[i]</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectspecificproperties"><span class="title">Object-Specific Properties</span></td>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">length</span></td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectspecificmethods"><span class="title">Object-Specific Methods</span></td>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">item( )</span></td><td><span class="literal">namedItem( )</span></td><td><span class="literal">tags( )</span></td><td><span class="literal">urns( )</span></td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectspecificeventhandlerproperties"><span class="title">Object-Specific Event Handler Properties</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			None. </p>
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						<tr><td valign="top" class="name">children[ ]</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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							<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal"></p>
							</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements"><span class="emphasis">Read-only</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>			Returns an array of all first-level HTML element objects contained by
		the current element. This collection differs from the <span class="literal">all[
		]</span> collection in that it contains references only to the
		immediate children of the current element (whereas the <span class="literal">all[
		]</span> collection transcends generations). For example,
		<span class="literal">document.body.children[ ]</span> might contain a form,
		but no reference to form elements nested inside the form. Items in
		this array are indexed (zero-based) in source code order. In contrast
		to the <span class="literal">childNodes[ ]</span> array, the scope of this
		property is the element, not the node. See the
		<span class="literal">children</span> object.
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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							<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>for (var i = 0; i &lt; elementRef.children.length; i++) {
		    if (elementRef.children[i].tagName == "FORM") {
		        // operate on a form element
		    }
		}</pre>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			Array of element object references.</p>
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							<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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							<td colspan="2"><p>			Array of length zero. </p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">length</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal"></p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Read-only&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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						<p>Returns the number of elements in the collection.</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>var howMany = document.body.children.length;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			Integer. </p>
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		</div><div id="item( )">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">item( )</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">item(<span class="replaceable">index</span>)</p>
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						<p>Returns an element object corresponding to the element matching the
index value in source code order.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="parameters"><span class="title">Parameters</span></td>
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<dt><var class="replaceable">index</var></dt>
<dd>
<p>A zero-based integer corresponding to the specified item in source
code order (nested within the current element).
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</dd>

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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="returnedvalue"><span class="title">Returned Value</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			Reference to an element object. If there is no matches to the
parameter, the returned value is <span class="literal">null</span>.
</p>
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		</div><div id="namedItem( )">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">namedItem( )</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">6</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">namedItem(<span class="replaceable">IDOrName</span>)</p>
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						<p>Returns an element object or collection of objects corresponding to
the element matching the parameter string value.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="parameters"><span class="title">Parameters</span></td>
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<dt><var class="replaceable">IDOrName</var></dt>
<dd>
<p>The string that contains the same value as the desired
element's <span class="LITERAL">id</span> or
<span class="LITERAL">name</span> attribute.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="returnedvalue"><span class="title">Returned Value</span></td>
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					<td colspan="2"><p>			One element object or collection (array) of element objects. If there
are no matches to the parameters, the returned value is
<span class="literal">null</span>.
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		</div><div id="tags( )">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">tags( )</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">tags(<span class="replaceable">tagName</span>)</p>
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						<p>Returns a collection of objects (among all objects nested within the
current collection) whose tags match the
<span class="replaceable">tagName</span> parameter. Implemented in all IE
collections (see the <span class="literal">all.tags( )</span> method), but
redundant for collections of the same element type.
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		</div><div id="urns( )">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">urns( )</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">5(Win)</span>  DOM <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">urns(<span class="replaceable">URN</span>)</p>
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						<p>See the <span class="literal">all.urns( )</span> method.</p>
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