getting access to dom elements

Hello

Assume I have the following HTML tags:

[code]
<div id=”container”
<div id=”a” />
<div id=”b” />
<div id=”c”>
<div id=”d” />
</div>
<div id=”e” />
</div>
[/code]

I need to write a JavaScript code that does the following:
Get a reference to the “container” element
get an array of all its [b]direct[/b] children

Iterate over its children array and print their id value
In the example above, the direct children would be:
a, b, c and e

Note the [b]d is left out[/b] because it is not a direct child of the “container”

I need the code to run on both IE and Firefox
I need a solution that will work even if the container’s direct children are not div elements, but any html tags

any help would be appreciated

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