[whatwg] nextSiblingElement ?

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jan 30 23:11:38 PST 2008


On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Garrett Smith wrote:
> >
> > One of the following drafts probably already handles your needs:
> >
> >    http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range/traversal.html#TreeWalker
> >    http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/
> 
> To create a tree walker, define an accept() and then iterate through 
> nodes, would be more effort than rewriting the hand-rolled 
> Dom.getNextSibling function I posted every time. I guess I could replace 
> the source code of my dom.getNextSiblingElement, but a for() loop is 
> probably simpler.
> 
> REally, all I want is 
> nextSiblingElement/previousSiblingElement/childElements properties so I 
> don't have to have library code or write a for() loop every time i want 
> to just find the next sibling element.

Well then the second link I posted above is probably what you want.

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