jQuery inside body tag only?

Question

Is there a way to count children only inside element using jQueru or just javascript?

I tried several methods like:

var count = $(document.body).children().length

or

var count = 0;
$(document.body).children().each(function(){
   count +=1
});

And every single one counts elements even outside of tag even and scripts or styles!

So Is there a way to count elements only inside body tag?

Any more information we should know? Test is working on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/4ogr8poj/ — ಠ_ಠ, Dec 01 '14 at 23:29
$(document.body).children().length works, wat is not working..? — Sudhir Bastakoti, Dec 01 '14 at 23:30
I use dreamweaver and when there is a script below or above body it counts it ! — user2311265, Dec 01 '14 at 23:42
http://jsfiddle.net/ushz3473/ In your example I added div tag outside body cause I can't add a script below body and as you can see it counts outside body! — user2311265, Dec 01 '14 at 23:58

Cedric Ipkiss · Answer 1 · 2014-12-01T23:48:25.443

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To get the number of elements only inside the body tag, try

var btags = document.body.getElementsByTagName("*");
var count = btags.length;

edited Dec 01 '14 at 23:48

answered Dec 01 '14 at 23:29

Cedric Ipkiss

Tried and it still counts outside of body tag! – user2311265 Dec 01 '14 at 23:35
Thanks for your effort but it still counts outside! – user2311265 Dec 01 '14 at 23:56
[This question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12823264/get-all-elements-in-the-body-tag-using-pure-javascript) looks similar to yours. – Cedric Ipkiss Dec 02 '14 at 00:10
I tried few solutions from there but they gives the same results, it simply won't count only inside of body – user2311265 Dec 02 '14 at 00:17

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