Node: hasChildNodes() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. Its been available across browsers since July 2015.

The hasChildNodes() method of the Node interface returns a boolean value indicating whether the given Node has child nodes or not.

Syntax

hasChildNodes()

None.

A boolean value that is true if the node has child nodes, and false otherwise.

let foo = document.getElementById("foo");

if (foo.hasChildNodes()) {
  // Do something with 'foo.childNodes'
}

Specification
DOM # ref-for-dom-node-haschildnodes

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