HTML DOM nextElementSibling Property

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

NOTE: This property does ignore text and comment nodes.

Following is the syntax −

Returning nextElementSibling node

nodeList.nextElementSibling

Let us see an example of HTML DOM nextElementSibling property −

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML DOM nextElementSibling</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-nextElementSibling</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>
   </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.nextElementSibling.textContent;
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

Before clicking ‘Get Sale Day’ button −

HTML DOM nextElementSibling Property

After clicking ‘Get Sale Day’ button −

HTML DOM nextElementSibling Property