element.firstChild is returning '<TextNode …' instead of an Object in FF

Question

I wrote a tab system using some very basic Javascript and it runs like a champ in IE 8 but, in FireFox 3 I am coming up short. The pertitent HTML is as follows:

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Answer 1

You can use node.firstElementChild to ignore leading text, or use a library like jQuery which takes care of this.