firstChild Fails

[unemployment]

<li id="feed_1">
      <a id="feed_1_1" href="">
</li>

 

var feed_1 = document.getElementById('feed_1');
   
if (feed_1)
{
    alert(feed_1.firstChild.id);
}

[KevinM1]

That doesn't tell us much.  Where is your JavaScript being invoked in relation to your HTML?

[Adam]

The first child is a text node for the line-break (see here for better explanation). You're better off using the children object which doesn't preserve white-space as nodes:

 

alert(feed_1.children[0].id);