The parentElement Property

The parentElement Property

The parentElement property returns the parent element of the present element. Unlike the parentNode property, you only use this property with elements, not any kind of node. (Nodes can include text nodes, attribute nodes, and so on.) You can see the support for this property in Table 5.43.

Table 5.43. The parentElement Property

Property	NS2	NS3	NS4	NS6	IE3a	IE3b	IE4	IE5	IE5.5	IE6
parentElement							x	x	x	x
	Read-only
	Type: Object

Here's an example:

 var parentElement = document.getElementById("element1").parentElement