forEach is not a function error with JavaScript array

First option: invoke forEach indirectly

The parent.children is an Array like object. Use the following solution:

const parent = this.el.parentElement;

Array.prototype.forEach.call(parent.children, child => {
  console.log(child)
});

The parent.children is NodeList type, which is an Array like object because:

• It contains the length property, which indicates the number of nodes
• Each node is a property value with numeric name, starting from 0: {0: NodeObject, 1: NodeObject, length: 2, ...}

See more details in this article.

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Second option: use the iterable protocol

parent.children is an HTMLCollection: which implements the iterable protocol. In an ES2015 environment, you can use the HTMLCollection with any construction that accepts iterables.

Use HTMLCollection with the spread operatator:

const parent = this.el.parentElement;

[...parent.children].forEach(child => {
  console.log(child);
});

Or with the for..of cycle (which is my preferred option):

const parent = this.el.parentElement;

for (const child of parent.children) {
  console.log(child);
}

A more naive version, at least you're sure that it'll work on all devices, without conversion and ES6 :

const children = parent.children;
for (var i = 0; i < children.length; i++){
    console.log(children[i]);
}

https://jsfiddle.net/swb12kqn/5/

parent.children is not an array. It is HTMLCollection and it does not have forEach method. You can convert it to the array first. For example in ES6:

Array.from(parent.children).forEach(child => {
    console.log(child)
});

or using spread operator:

[...parent.children].forEach(function (child) {
    console.log(child)
});

parent.children will return a node list list, technically a html Collection. That is an array like object, but not an array, so you cannot call array functions over it directly. At this context you can use Array.from() to convert that into a real array,

Array.from(parent.children).forEach(child => {
  console.log(child)
})