Element: nextElementSibling property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The Element.nextElementSibling read-only property returns the element immediately following the specified one in its parent's children list, or null if the specified element is the last one in the list.

Value

An Element object, or null.

Examples

html

<div id="div-01">Here is div-01</div>
<div id="div-02">Here is div-02</div>

let el = document.getElementById("div-01").nextElementSibling;
console.log("Siblings of div-01:");
while (el) {
  console.log(el.nodeName);
  el = el.nextElementSibling;
}

This example outputs the following into the console when it loads: