XML DOM parentNode attribute

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Definition and usage

The parentNode attribute can return the parent node of a node.

Syntax:

nodeObject.parentNode

Example

In all examples, we will use the XML file books.xml, and JavaScript function loadXMLDoc().

The following code snippet can return the parent node of the first <title> element:

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
var parent=x.parentNode;
document.write("Parent node: " + parent.nodeName);

Output:

Parent node: book

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