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

Value

An Element that is the last child Element of the object, or null if there are none.

Examples

let fragment = new DocumentFragment();
fragment.lastElementChild; // null

let paragraph = document.createElement("p");
fragment.appendChild(paragraph);

fragment.lastElementChild; // <p>

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
lastElementChild 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/DocumentFragment/lastElementChild