Can querySelectorAll return an empty NodeList?
Answers:
Yes,
querySelectorAll
can return an empty NodeList. This occurs when the specified CSS selector does not match any elements in the document.For example, if you run the following code:
const elements = document.querySelectorAll('.non-existent-class'); console.log(elements); // This will log an empty NodeList
In this case, since there are no elements with the class
non-existent-class
,elements
will be an empty NodeList. It's important to note that an empty NodeList is still an instance of the NodeList interface and has alength
property of 0:console.log(elements.length); // Outputs: 0
You can safely iterate over this empty NodeList without generating any errors.
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