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previousSibling Property
HTML Elements/DHTML Objects Element Attributes
DOM Level 1 Specification.
Returns a reference to the node that immediately precedes this node.
Syntax
| HTML | N/A |
|---|---|
| Script | [ oElement = ] object.previousSibling |
Possible Values
| oElement | Reference to the previous sibling of an object. |
If there is no such node, this property returns null. The property is read-only with no default value.
Example
The following sample demonstrates the implementation of the previousSibling property to obtain the previous sibling of an object.
<script language="JavaScript"> // returns the list item labelled 'List Item 1' var oSibling = oList.childNodes ( 1 ).previousSibling; </script> ... <body> <ul ID = oList> <li> <li>List Item 1 <li> <li>List Item 2 <li> <li>List Item 3 </ul> </body>
See Also
firstChild, nextSibling, lastChild
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