js中children和childNodes的区别

.children is a property of an Element. Only Elements have children, and these children are all of type Element（元素节点）.

However .childNodes is a property of Node. .childNodes can contain any node（包括元素节点、属性节点、文本节点等）。

So a concrete example would be

var el = document.createElement("div");
el.textContent = "foo"
el.childNodes.length === 1; // TextNode is a node child
el.children.length === 0; // no Element children

Of course .children is DOM4 so browser support is shaky, however if you use the DOM-shim, your cross browser problems will go away!

Most of the time you want to use .children because generally you don't want to loop over TextNodes or Comments in your DOM manipulation.

If you do want to manipulate TextNodes you probably want .textContent instead.