dom-tools/src/children.js

A tiny collection of DOM helpers for IE8+.

// IE8+
//
// Returns an Array of all children Element nodes, excluding comment/text
// nodes, for "node"

var canUseDOM = require('./canUseDOM');

var children = function(){}; // noop if not working with DOM

if (canUseDOM) {
  children = (function(){
    if (document.children) {
      return function(node) {
        /// convert HTMLCollection into an Array
        return Array.prototype.slice.call( node.children );
      }
    } else {
      return function(node) {
        var children = [];
        var nodes = node.childNodes, n, i;
        for (i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
          n = nodes[i];
          if (n.nodeType === 1) {
            children.push(n);
          }
        }
        return children;
      }
    }
  })();
}

module.exports = children;