How to get element.children.length in Firefox

[Sachin Pimpale]

Hi all i have created table I want to get length of its element using javascript in Firefox but it gives error as element.children is undefined

var element = document.getElementById("tableMenu");
var elelen;
elelen = element.children.length

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[Shog9 0]

Use element.childNodes instead. Be aware, unlike element.children this list may contain text nodes.

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