Element: previousElementSibling property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
TheElement.previousElementSiblingread-only property returns theElement immediately prior to the specifiedone in its parent'schildren list, ornull if the specified element is the first one in the list.
Value
AnElement object, ornull.
Examples
html
<div>Here is div-01</div><div>Here is div-02</div><li>This is a list item</li><li>This is another list item</li><div>Here is div-03</div>js
let el = document.getElementById("div-03").previousElementSibling;console.log("Siblings of div-03:");while (el) { console.log(el.nodeName); el = el.previousElementSibling;}This example outputs the following into the page when it loads:
Siblings of div-03:LILIDIVDIV
Specifications
| Specification |
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| DOM # ref-for-dom-nondocumenttypechildnode-previouselementsibling② |