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Document: lastElementChild property

The Document.lastElementChild read-only property returns the document's last child Element, or null if there are no child elements.

For HTML documents, this is usually the only child, the root <html> element.

See Element.lastElementChild for the last child element of specific elements within a document.

Value

The root <html> element.

Examples

js

document.lastElementChild;
// returns the root <html> element, the only child of the document

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
lastElementChild 29 17 25 No 16 9 4.4 29 25 16 9 2.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/lastElementChild