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DOM Level 1 Specification.

Returns a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object.

HTML	N/A
Script	[ oElement = ] object.lastChild

oElement

The last child object.

If there is no such node, this property returns null. The property is read-only with no default value.

The following sample demonstrates the implementation of the lastChild property to obtain the last child element of an object. Click on an element to see.

<div id=div1 onclick="getLast ( this )">
<ul>This is a list in a DIV
  <li>
  <li>List Item 1
  <li>
  <li>List Item 2
  <li>
  <li>List Item 3
</ul>
<p>And this is a paragraph in the DIV.</div>
<div id=div2 onclick="getLast ( this )">
<h3>This is a heading in a second DIV</h3>
<blockquote>And this is a blockquote in 
  the second DIV.</blockquote></div>

<script language="JavaScript">
function getLast ( objID ) {
var oLast = objID.lastChild;
alert ( 'The lastChild of this DIV is a ' + 
  oLast.tagName );}
</script>

firstChild, nextSibling, previousSibling

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