The read-only parentNode property of the Node interface returns the parent of the specified node in the DOM tree.
Document and DocumentFragment nodes can never have a parent, so parentNode will always return null. It also returns null if the node has just been created and is not yet attached to the tree.
A Node that is the parent of the current node. The parent of an element is an Element node, a Document node, or a DocumentFragment node.
js
if (node.parentNode) {
// remove a node from the tree, unless
// it's not in the tree already
node.parentNode.removeChild(node);
}
| Specification |
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| DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-node-parentnode① |
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
parentNode |
1 | 12 | 1 | 5.5 | 7 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 18 | 4 | 10.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
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