parentElement

Returns the parent element of the selected DOM-element.

Usage

$(selector).parentElement()

Examples

Asynchronous Mode

index.html

<div class="parent">
    <p>Sibling One</p>
    <p>Sibling Two</p>
    <p>Sibling Three</p>
</div>

parentElement.js

it('should get class from parent element', async () => {
    const elem = await $$('p');
    const parent = await elem[2].parentElement()
    console.log(await parent.getAttribute('class')); // outputs: "parent"
});

Synchronous Mode

index.html

<div class="parent">
    <p>Sibling One</p>
    <p>Sibling Two</p>
    <p>Sibling Three</p>
</div>

parentElement.js

it('should get class from parent element', () => {
    const elem = $$('p');
    const parent = elem[2].parentElement()
    console.log(parent.getAttribute('class')); // outputs: "parent"
});

caution

Synchronous Mode will depcrecated with Node.js v16. With an update to the underlying Chromium version it became technically impossible to provide the same synchronous behavior. We recommend to start transition to asynchronous command execution. For more information, see our RFC.