TreeWalker: currentNode property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The TreeWalker.currentNode property represents the Node which the TreeWalker is currently pointing at.

Value

A Node.

Examples

js
const treeWalker = document.createTreeWalker(
  document.body,
  NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT,
  {
    acceptNode(node) {
      return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;
    },
  },
);
root = treeWalker.currentNode; // the root element as it is the first element!

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-treewalker-currentnode①

Browser compatibility

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See also