Tech Stuff - DOM nextSibling attribute

W3C Core Reference. Part of the Node Interface

nextSibling attribute

Returns the next Node that is a child of the current node. If there is none it will return NULL.

Syntax

nextnode = node.nextSibling;

Related Stuff

appendChild method, removeChild method

Examples

// get the last child of existing node
currentnode = document.getElementById("current");

next = currentnode.nextSibling;
if(next)
{
  // node exists
  if(next.nodeType == 3)
  {
    // do something if its a text node
    string = next.nodeValue;
  }
}

Notes:

None.

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