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JavaScript Breaking on Events and Basic Stepping

Posted by Juan Castaneda
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Juan Castaneda
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,806 Points

parentNode vs parentElement

The program runs the same when I use parentElement. How do I know when to use parentNode vs parentElement? Is there a difference?

1 Answer

Dylan Bailey
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Dylan Bailey
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 17,232 Points

Parent Element returns null if the parent is not an element node, that is the main difference between parentElement and parentNode. In many cases one can use anyone of them, in most cases, they are the same.

Link to article.

Hope that clears up the confusion!