XML DOM parentNode Property
Element Object
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the parent node from the first <title> element in "books.xml":
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
myFunction(xhttp);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
function myFunction(xml) {
var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
var x =
xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Parent
node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName;
}
The output of the code above will be:
Parent node: book
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Definition and Usage
The parentNode property returns the parent node of the specified element.
Syntax
elementNode.parentNode
Element Object
