XML DOM parentNode Property

❮ Element Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the parent node from the first <title> element in "books.xml":

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
   if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
       myFunction(this);
   }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();

function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    "Parent node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName;
}

The output of the code above will be:

Parent node: book

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Definition and Usage

The parentNode property returns the parent node of the specified element.

Syntax

elementNode.parentNode

❮ Element Object

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