Get first child node of specific type - JavaScript

Try this

var firstIMG = document.getElementById('mylink').getElementsByTagName('img')[0];

You can also use querySelector:

var firstImg = document.querySelector("#mylink > img:first-of-type");

var anchor = document.getElementById('mylink');
var images = anchor.getElementsByTagName('img');
var image = images.length ? images[0] : null;

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