previousSibling property

Node? get previousSibling

The read-only previousSibling property of the Node interface returns the node immediately preceding the specified one in its parent's Node.childNodes list, or null if the specified node is the first in that list.

Note: Browsers insert text nodes into a document to represent whitespace in the source markup. Therefore a node obtained, for example, using Node.firstChild or Node.previousSibling may refer to a whitespace text node rather than the actual element the author intended to get.

See Whitespace in the DOM for more information.

You can use previousElementSibling to get the previous element node (skipping text nodes and any other non-element nodes).

To navigate the opposite way through the child nodes list use Node.nextSibling.

Implementation

external Node? get previousSibling;