# Are there any plans to support child nodes under elements?

**URL:** <https://forum.umbraco.com/t/are-there-any-plans-to-support-child-nodes-under-elements/8741>\
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**Created:** [November 14, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/are-there-any-plans-to-support-child-nodes-under-elements/8741 "2026-11-14T20:52:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![sandhuravinder](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/sandhuravinder/32/818_2.png) [@sandhuravinder](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/sandhuravinder)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/are-there-any-plans-to-support-child-nodes-under-elements/8741/1 "2026-11-14T20:52:25Z")

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Thanks to the Umbraco team for introducing elements. I’ve been exploring how they could work for different content structures, and one use case I came across was managing blog categories and subcategories, or any type of filters with a parent-child combination.

My idea was to create a **Blog Category** element type and allow **Blog Subcategory** items to be created beneath each category. With regular document types, I’d configure the allowed child types and let editors manage the hierarchy in the content tree. I couldn’t find an equivalent option for element types.

Is support for child nodes under elements being considered? If there’s already a recommended way to model categories and subcategories using elements, I’d be interested to hear how others are doing it.