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HTMLCollection: item() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTMLCollection method item() returns the element located at the specified offset into the collection.

Note: Because the contents of an HTMLCollection are live, changes to the underlying DOM can and will cause the position of individual elements in the collection to change, so the index value will not necessarily remain constant for a given element.

Syntax

item(index)

Parameters

index: The position of the Element to be returned. Elements appear in an HTMLCollection in the same order in which they appear in the document's source.

Return value

The Element at the specified index, or null if index is less than zero or greater than or equal to the length property.

Usage notes

The item() method returns a numbered element from an HTMLCollection. In JavaScript, it is easier to treat the HTMLCollection as an array and to index it using array notation. See the example below.

Examples

const images = document.images; // This is an HTMLCollection
const img0 = images.item(0); // You can use the item() method this way
const img1 = images[1]; // But this notation is easier and more common

Specifications

Specification
DOM> # ref-for-dom-htmlcollection-item①>

Browser compatibility

	Desktop					Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`item`	1	12	1	≤12.1	1	18	4	≤12.1	1	1.0	4.4	1