treechildren
Treechildren is a term used in computer science and software libraries to refer to the collection of child nodes attached to a single parent within a tree data structure. The treechildren of a node represents all nodes that are directly descended from that node, and together they define the node’s immediate branching. In typical implementations, the treechildren container is ordered and may support dynamic updates, such as adding or removing children, iterating over the children, or querying their properties. Each child in a tree has exactly one parent, and the structure as a whole forms a hierarchy without cycles.
In practice, treechildren are often implemented as a list, array, or specialized container object that provides
In some UI frameworks, particularly Mozilla’s XUL, the term treechildren refers to a concrete element that holds
See also: tree (data structure), node (data structure), children (property), tree item.