Node: parentNode property
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.
Value
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.
Example
js
if (node.parentNode) {
// remove a node from the tree, unless
// it's not in the tree already
node.parentNode.removeChild(node);
}
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-node-parentnode① |
Browser compatibility
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