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Created February 6, 2014 08:11
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Traversing the DOM, without jQuery
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Traversing the DOM
# Getting the parent node
parent = document.querySelector("div").parentNode
# Getting the next node
next = document.querySelector("div").nextSibling
# Getting the previous node
next = document.querySelector("div").previousSibling
# Getting the first child element
child = document.querySelector("div").children[0]
# Getting the last child
last = document.querySelector("div").lastElementChild
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