previousSibling Property

Contains the left sibling of this node.

Syntax

objDOMNode  = oDOMNode.previousSibling

Remarks

Object. The property is read-only.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property:

NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT

Always returns null; these node types do not appear as children of any other nodes.

NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT

Returns the node immediately preceding this node in this node's parent's child list. Returns null if no such node exists.

Applies To

IDOMAttribute, IDOMCDATASection, IDOMCharacterData, IDOMComment, IDOMDocument, IDOMDocumentFragment, IDOMDocumentType, IDOMElement, IDOMEntity, IDOMEntityReference, IDOMNode, IDOMNotation, IDOMProcessingInstruction, IDOMText, IXMLDOMDocument, IXMLDOMNode, IXTLRuntime

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