HTML DOM lastElementChild Property
Example
Get the HTML content of the last child of a <ul> element:
const element = document.getElementById("myList")
let html = element.lastElementChild.innerHTML;
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Get the tag name of the last child of a <div> element:
const element =document.getElementById("myDIV")
let tag = element.lastElementChild.tagName;
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Get the text of the last child of a <select> element:
const element = document.getElementById("mySelect")
let text = element.lastElementChild.text;
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Description
The lastElementChild property returns the last child element of an element.
The lastElementChild property is read-only.
Nodes vs Elements
In the HTML DOM terminology:
Nodes are all nodes (element nodes, text nodes, and comment nodes).
Whitespace between elements are also text nodes.
Elements are only element nodes.
childNodes vs children
childNodes returns child nodes (element nodes, text nodes, and comment nodes).
children returns child elements (not text and comment nodes).
firstChild vs firstElementChild
firstChild returns the first child node (an element node, a text node or a comment node). Whitespace between elements are also text nodes.
firstElementChild returns the first child element (not text and comment nodes).
lastChild vs lastElementChild
lastChild returns the last child node (an element node, a text node or a comment node). Whitespace between elements are also text nodes.
lastElementChild returns the last child element (not text and comment nodes).
Syntax
element.lastElementChild
Return Value
| Type | Description |
| Node | The last child element of the element.nullif no child element exists. |
Browser Support
element.lastElementChild is a DOM Level 3 (2004) feature.
It is fully supported in all modern browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |