The read-only parentElement property of Node interface returns the DOM node's parent Element, or null if the node either has no parent, or its parent isn't a DOM Element.
Node: parentElement property
Value
An Element that is the parent element of the current node, or null if there isn't one.
Example
js
if (node.parentElement) {
node.parentElement.style.color = "red";
}
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-node-parentelement① |
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 | |
parentElement |
1 | 12 | 9 |
8Only supported onElement.
|
7Before Opera 15, this feature was only supported onElement.
|
1.1 | 4.4 | 18 | 9 |
10.1Before Opera Android 14, this feature was only supported onElement.
|
1 | 1.0 |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/parentElement