jQuery Selector parent descendant count all child elements regardless of types

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jQuery Selector parent descendant count all child elements regardless of types

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery Get Number of Child Elements in a Div</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
        var matched = $(".content *");
        document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = 
           "Number of elements in content div = " + matched.length;
    });/*  w w  w.j  a v  a2s  . c  o m*/
</script>
</head>
<body>
    <p id="demo"></p>
    <div class="content">
        <h1>This is a heading</h1>
        <p>This is a paragraph.</p>
        <div>This is just a <em>block of text</em>.</div>
        <ul>
            <li>An item of an unordered list</li>
            <li>Another item of an unordered list</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
</html>



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