How to count whitespaces as a childnodes?

Question

Question by user1394479

Whitespace count as empty text element in a DOM.
How can I count these whitespaces?

for example

<body>

    <div>

    </div>

    <div>

    </div>

</body>

how many whitespaces(childNodes) inside the body element?

how many whitespaces(childNodes) inside each div element?

Answer 1

If you are trying to see how many elements are empty? Then I am giving you a jQuery solution instead.

bodyChild = $("body :empty").length;
divHcild = $("#divid :empty").length;

Using them, you can know what many elements are completely empty inside an element.

Update:
To get all the child element, you can use something like this

Body:

var children = document.getElementByTagName('body').childNodes;