HTML DOM nextSibling Property

The HTML DOM nextSibling property returns the element node which is immediately following specified element node.

NOTE: This property does not ignore text and comment nodes.

Following is the syntax −

Returning nextSibling node

nodeList.nextSibling

Let us see an example of HTML DOM nextSibling property −

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML DOM nextSibling</title>
<style>
   form {
      width:70%;
      margin: 0 auto;
      text-align: center;
   }
   * {
      padding: 2px;
      margin:5px;
   }
   input[type="button"] {
      border-radius: 10px;
   }
   ul{
      width: 30%;
      margin: 0 auto;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
   <form>
      <fieldset>
         <legend>HTML-DOM-nextSibling</legend>
         <h3>Grocery Store</h3>
            <ul>
               <li>Monday</li>
                  <li>Tuesday</li>
                  <li>Wednesday</li>
                  <li>Thursday</li>
                  <li>Friday</li>
                  <li id="Today">Saturday</li><li>Sunday</li>
                  //Do not add whitespace between <li> elements as lastSibling does not ignores                            whitespaces
               </ul>
         <input type="button" onclick="getTimmings()" value="Get Sale Day">
         <div id="divDisplay"></div>
      </fieldset>
   </form>
<script>
   var divDisplay = document.getElementById("divDisplay");
   var dayToday = document.getElementById("Today");
   function getTimmings() {
      divDisplay.textContent = 'Sale on last day of week: '+dayToday.nextSibling.textContent;
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

Before clicking ‘Get Sale Day’ button: −

HTML DOM nextSibling Property

After clicking ‘Get Sale Day’ button −

HTML DOM nextSibling Property