Document: documentElement property - Web APIs | MDN
Value
An Element object.
Examples
js
const rootElement = document.documentElement;
const firstTier = rootElement.childNodes;
// firstTier is a NodeList of the direct children of the root element
// such as <head> and <body>
for (const child of firstTier) {
// do something with each direct child of the root element
}
Notes
For any non-empty HTML document, documentElement will always be an
<html> element. For any non-empty XML document,
documentElement will always be whatever element is the root element of the
document.
Specifications
| Specification |
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| DOM # ref-for-dom-document-documentelementâ‘ |