Baseline Widely available
The read-only previousElementSibling
property of the CharacterData
interface returns the first Element
before the current node in its parent's children list, or null
if there is none.
A Element
object, or null
if no sibling has been found.
<div id="div-01">Here is div-01</div>
TEXT
<div id="div-02">Here is div-02</div>
SOME TEXT
<div id="div-03">Here is div-03</div>
<pre>Result</pre>
// Initially set node to the Text node with `SOME TEXT`
let node = document.getElementById("div-02").nextSibling;
let result = "Previous element siblings of SOME TEXT:\n";
while (node) {
result += `${node.nodeName}\n`;
node = node.previousElementSibling;
}
document.querySelector("pre").textContent = result;
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4