nextSibling

Summary

Retrieves the next sibling of the current node in the filtered TreeWalker hierarchy and updates currentNode.

Method of dom/TreeWalkerdom/TreeWalker

Syntax

var node = treewalker.nextSibling();

Return Value

Returns an object of type DOM NodeDOM Node

Object that receives the next child of a parent node in the filtered TreeWalker hierarchy.

Examples

var treewalker = document.createTreeWalker(
    document.body,
    NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT,
    { acceptNode: function(node) { return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT; } },
    false
);
treewalker.firstChild();
var node = treewalker.nextSibling(); // returns null if the first child of the root element has no sibling

Notes

Remarks

nextSibling sets the currentNode to the returned node. It returns null if there are no more child nodes.

Syntax

Standards information

• Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification, Section 1.2

Related specifications

DOM

Living Standard

Attributions

• Mozilla Developer Network : [TreeWalker.nextSibling Article]

• Microsoft Developer Network: [nextSibling Method Article]