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Traversing the DOM

Node.childNodes

Get the immediate descendants of an element, including text fragments and other non-element nodes.

<ul>
	<!-- The gray wizard -->
	<li>Gandalf</li>
	<li>Radagast</li>
	<li>Hermione</li>
	<!-- The surprise hero -->
	<li>Neville</li>
</ul>
let wizards = document.querySelector('ul');

// returns all nodes, including the comments
let descendants = wizards.childNodes;