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CharacterData: nextElementSibling property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨April 2018⁩.

The read-only nextElementSibling property of the CharacterData interface returns the first Element node following the specified one in its parent's children list, or null if the specified element is the last one in the list.

Value

A Element object, or null if no sibling has been found.

Example

TEXT
<div id="div-01">Here is div-01</div>
TEXT2
<div id="div-02">Here is div-02</div>
<pre>Here is the result area</pre>
// Initially, set node to the Text node with `TEXT`
let node = document.getElementById("div-01").previousSibling;

let result = "Next element siblings of TEXT:\n";

while (node) {
  result += `${node.nodeName}\n`;
  node = node.nextElementSibling; // The first node is a CharacterData, the others Element objects
}

document.querySelector("pre").textContent = result;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
nextElementSibling 29 17 25 16 9 29 25 16 9 2.0 4.4 9

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CharacterData/nextElementSibling