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Node: nextSibling property

The read-only nextSibling property of the Node interface returns the node immediately following the specified one in their parent's childNodes, or returns null if the specified node is the last child in the parent element.

Note: Browsers insert Text nodes into a document to represent whitespace in the source markup. Therefore a node obtained, for example, using Node.firstChild or Node.previousSibling may refer to a whitespace text node rather than the actual element the author intended to get.

The article Whitespace in the DOM contains more information about this behavior.

You can use Element.nextElementSibling to obtain the next element skipping any whitespace nodes, other between-element text, or comments.

To navigate the opposite way through the child nodes list use Node.previousSibling.

Value

A Node representing the next sibling of the current node, or null if there are none.

Example

html

<div id="div-1">Here is div-1</div>
<div id="div-2">Here is div-2</div>
<br />
<output><em>Not calculated.</em></output>

let el = document.getElementById("div-1").nextSibling;
let i = 1;

let result = "Siblings of div-1:<br/>";

while (el) {
  result += `${i}. ${el.nodeName}<br/>`;
  el = el.nextSibling;
  i++;
}

const output = document.querySelector("output");
output.innerHTML = result;

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-node-nextsibling①

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
`nextSibling`	1	12	1	5.5	7	1.1	4.4	18	4	10.1	1	1.0

Value

Example

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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