Document: lastElementChild property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2018.
The Document.lastElementChild read-only property
returns the document's last child Element, or null if there
are no child elements.
For HTML documents, this is usually the only child, the root element.
See Element.lastElementChild for the last child element of specific elements within a document.
Value
The root element.
Examples
js
document.lastElementChild;
// returns the root element, the only child of the document
Specifications
| Specification |
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| DOM # ref-for-dom-parentnode-lastelementchild① |