Microsoft DOM Objects Reference

parentNode

Syntax

set objXMLDOMNode = objXMLDOMNode.parentNode

Remark

This property is read-only. Whereas the ownerDocument object returns the root of the document, the parentNode returns the parentNode for the current Node. All Nodes except Document, DocumentFragment, and Attribute Nodes can have a parentNode.

When we create a Node and it has not yet been added to the tree-or if it has been removed from the tree-the parent is NULL. (See the createNode() or createElement() methods later in this section for more information on how to do this.)

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