The read-only singleNodeValue property of the XPathResult interface returns a Node value or null in case no node was matched of a result with XPathResult.resultType being ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE or FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE.
XPathResult: singleNodeValue property
Value
The return value is the Node value of the XPathResult returned by Document.evaluate().
Exceptions
TYPE_ERR
In case XPathResult.resultType is not ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE or FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, an XPathException of type TYPE_ERR is thrown.
Examples
The following example shows the use of the singleNodeValue property.
HTML
html
<div>XPath example</div>
<div>
Tag name of the element having the text content 'XPath example':
<output></output>
</div>
JavaScript
js
const xpath = "//*[text()='XPath example']";
const result = document.evaluate(
xpath,
document,
null,
XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE,
null,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.singleNodeValue.localName;
Result
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM Standard # dom-xpathresult-singlenodevalue |
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 | |
singleNodeValue |
1 | 12 | 1 | No | ≤12.1 | 3 | 4.4 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XPathResult/singleNodeValue