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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 15px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
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<p>Click the button get the node name of the DIV's first child node.</p>
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<div id="myDIV">
  <p>A P element - Second child in div</p>
  <span>A Span element - Fourth child in div</span>
</div>
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<button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> Whitespace inside elements is considered as text, and text is considered as nodes. Therefore, in this example, the first, third and fifth child of the div element is a #text node.</p>
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<p id="demo"></p>
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<script>
function myFunction() {
  var x = document.getElementById("myDIV").firstChild.nodeName;
  document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; 
}
</script>
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</body>
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</html>
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