Node: lastChild 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 read-only lastChild
property of the Node
interface
returns the last child of the node, or null
if there are no child nodes.
Note:
This property returns any type of node that is the last child of this one.
It may be a Text
or a Comment
node.
If you want to get the last Element
that is a child of another element,
consider using Element.lastElementChild
.
Value
A Node
that is the last child of the node, or null
if there are no child nodes.
Example
js
const tr = document.getElementById("row1");
const corner_td = tr.lastChild;
Specifications
Specification |
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DOM # ref-for-dom-node-lastchild① |
Browser compatibility
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