July 1998
Intermediate to advanced
1456 pages
65h 5m
English
Content preview from Dynamic HTML: The Definitive ReferenceBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Name
parentElement — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a
Synopsis
Read-only
Returns a reference to the next outermost element in the HTML
containment hierarchy. An element’s HTML parent is not
necessarily the same as the object returned by the
offsetParent property. The
parentElement concerns itself strictly with source
code containment, while the offsetParent property
looks to the next outermost element that is used as the coordinate
system for measuring the location of the current element. For
example, if the main document contains a P element
with an EM element nested inside, the
EM element has two parents. The
P element is the returned
parentElement value (due to the HTML source code
containment), while the BODY element is the
returned offsetParent value (due to coordinate
space containment).
You can jump multiple parent levels by cascading
parentElement properties, as in:
document.all.elementID.parentElement.parentElementYou can then use references to access a parent element’s properties or methods.
Example
document.all.elementID.parentElement.style.font-size = "14pt"Value
Element object reference.
Default
None.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.