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HTML DOM lastChild Property
The HTML DOM lastChild property returns the last element node as node object of the specified node.
NOTE − This property does not ignore text and comment nodes
Syntax
Following is the syntax −
Returning lastChild node
nodeList.lastChild
Example
Let us see an example for HTML DOM lastChild property −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML DOM lastChild</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-lastChild</legend>
<h3>Grocery Store</h3>
<ul id="dayList">
<li>Monday</li>
<li>Tuesday</li>
<li>Wednesday</li>
<li>Thursday</li>
<li>Friday</li>
<li>Saturday</li>
<li>Sunday</li></ul>
//Do not add whitespace before closing <ul> as lastChild will take whitespace as last child
<input type="button" onclick="getTimmings()" value="Get Sale Day">
<div id="divDisplay"></div>
</fieldset>
</form>
<script>
var divDisplay = document.getElementById("divDisplay");
var dayList = document.getElementById("dayList");
function getTimmings() {
divDisplay.textContent = 'Sale on last day of week: '+dayList.lastChild.textContent;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>Output
This will produce the following output −
Before clicking ‘Get Sale Day’ button −
After clicking ‘Get Sale Day’ button −
Updated on: 30-Jul-2019
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