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XML DOM length Property


NodeList Object Reference NodeList Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the number of <title> elements:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
        myFunction(xhttp);
    }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();

function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title");
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    "Number of title elements: " + x.length;
}

The output of the code above will be:

Number of title elements: 4
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Definition and Usage

The length property returns the number of nodes in a node list.


Syntax

nodelistObject.length

Try-It-Yourself Demos

length - Loop through the nodes in a node list


NodeList Object Reference NodeList Object