XPathResult: singleNodeValue 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 singleNodeValue property of the XPathResult interface returns a Node value or null in case no node was matched of a result with XPathResult.resultType being ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE or FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE.

Value

The return value is the Node value of the XPathResult returned by Document.evaluate().

Exceptions

TYPE_ERR

In case XPathResult.resultType is not ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE or FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, an XPathException of type TYPE_ERR is thrown.

Examples

The following example shows the use of the singleNodeValue property.

HTML

html

<div>XPath example</div>
<div>
  Tag name of the element having the text content 'XPath example':
  <output></output>
</div>

JavaScript

const xpath = "//*[text()='XPath example']";
const result = document.evaluate(
  xpath,
  document,
  null,
  XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE,
  null,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.singleNodeValue.localName;

Result

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard # dom-xpathresult-singlenodevalue

Browser compatibility

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