# How to check if an element has children using JavaScript By Atta Ur Rehman Shah (https://attacomsian.com/about). Published Aug 10, 2020, updated Sep 23, 2021. Topics: JavaScript. Canonical URL: https://attacomsian.com/blog/javascript-dom-check-if-an-element-has-children > Learn how to check if an HTML element has children by using the hasChildNodes() method in JavaScript. To check if an HTML element has child nodes, you can use the `hasChildNodes()` method. This method returns `true` if the specified node has any child nodes, otherwise `false`. Let us say you have the following HTML code snippet: ```html

``` The following example shows that how you can use the `hasChildNodes()` method to check if the `` and `