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Posted by Max van den Berge
Max van den Berge
6,506 Points

general question, about parentNode and myElement.children

on the MDN website, i checked them both for more info.

my question is: what do they mean with "read-only property"

1 element.children

The read-only children property returns a live HTMLCollection which contains all of the child elements of the element upon which it was called.

2 Node.parentNode

The read-only parentNode property of the Node interface returns the parent of the specified node in the DOM tree.

3 Answers

Kalyani Das
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Kalyani Das
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 205 Points

This comment has been removed. - Treehouse moderators.

Max van den Berge
Max van den Berge
6,506 Points

can you explain? what has this link to do with my "read only" question.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

The term "read-only" means that you can access the value it contains, but you cannot directly change that value.

Max van den Berge
Max van den Berge
6,506 Points
Max van den Berge
Max van den Berge
6,506 Points

thx again !