TreeWalker.nextSibling

The TreeWalker.nextSibling() method moves the current Node to its next sibling, if any, and returns the found sibling. I there is no such node, return null and the current node is not changed.

Syntax

node = treeWalker.nextSibling();

Example

var treeWalker = document.createTreeWalker(
    document.body,
    NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT,
    { acceptNode: function(node) { return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT; } },
    false
);
treeWalker.firstChild();
var node = treeWalker.nextSibling(); // returns null if the first child of the root element has no sibling

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
DOM The definition of 'TreeWalker.nextSibling' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change from Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification The definition of 'TreeWalker.nextSibling' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition.

Browser compatibility

See also

• The TreeWalker interface it belongs to.