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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Traversing the DOM Traversal Review

Posted by Maksym Novikov
Maksym Novikov
4,580 Points

ParentNode

Why can't we use parentNode to the same elements few times?

1 Answer

richporter
richporter
16,727 Points
richporter
richporter
16,727 Points

We can, I think you misunderstood the question. Try this in your browser console on this page:

let test = document.getElementById('answer-body-all').parentNode.parentNode.parentNode;
// undefined
test
// <form>
Maksym Novikov
Maksym Novikov
4,580 Points

Tried, but I still don't understand what's going on...

richporter
richporter
16,727 Points

This is showing that you can start at an element 'answer-body-all' (which is the reply section on this page), then select 3 parent elements above and store that in a variable.

Then by typing the variable (test) the console outputs the element you found by using multiple parentNode's