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

A Element object, or null.

Examples

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

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

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

Siblings of div-01:
DIV
SCRIPT

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-nondocumenttypechildnode-nextelementsibling②

Browser compatibility

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See also