Total amount of nodes in a document

How can I get the number of total amounts of objects in my document???


thanks

By "total amount of nodes," do you mean *all* nodes (attribute notes, comments, etc.), or do you really mean "total amount of elements," or something different?

Also, out of curiosity: what is the purpose of finding the number of nodes in the document?

Happy coding! :)

You can get all element nodes via document.getElementsByTagName("*"). If you want all nodes, a DOM2 NodeIterator is what you'd want to use ideally, though no browser supports it. A recursive call pushing nodes onto a stack would achieve the same thing though.

yea, I need the * , cuz I want to find all elements and assign them A ID if they dont have one laready :D

What is a node?

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