Baseline Widely available
The Element.previousElementSibling
read-only property returns the Element
immediately prior to the specified one in its parent's children
list, or null
if the specified element is the first one in the list.
An Element
object, or null
.
<div id="div-01">Here is div-01</div>
<div id="div-02">Here is div-02</div>
<li>This is a list item</li>
<li>This is another list item</li>
<div id="div-03">Here is div-03</div>
let el = document.getElementById("div-03").previousElementSibling;
console.log("Siblings of div-03:");
while (el) {
console.log(el.nodeName);
el = el.previousElementSibling;
}
This example outputs the following into the page when it loads:
Siblings of div-03: LI LI DIV DIVSpecifications Browser compatibility See also
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4