lastChild Property

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Retrieves a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object.

What's New for Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6

This method now applies to the attribute object.

Syntax

HTML N/A
Scripting [ oElement = ] object.lastChild

Possible Values

oElement Object that receives the last child.
The property is read-only. The property has no default value.

Example

This example implements the lastChild property to obtain a reference to the last child element of an object.
<BODY>
<UL ID = "oList">
<LI>List Item 1
<LI>List Item 2
<LI>List Item 3
</UL>
<SCRIPT>
var olastChild = oList.lastChild;
</SCRIPT>
<BODY>

Standards Information

This property is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .

Applies To

A, ACRONYM, ADDRESS, APPLET, AREA, attribute, B, BASE, BASEFONT, BDO, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, COL, COLGROUP, COMMENT, DD, DEL, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, EMBED, FIELDSET, FONT, FORM, FRAME, FRAMESET, HEAD, hn, HR, HTML, I, IFRAME, IMG, INPUT type=button, INPUT type=checkbox, INPUT type=file, INPUT type=image, INPUT type=password, INPUT type=radio, INPUT type=reset, INPUT type=submit, INPUT type=text, INS, KBD, LABEL, LEGEND, LI, LINK, LISTING, MAP, MARQUEE, MENU, nextID, OL, OPTION, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, Q, S, SAMP, SCRIPT, SELECT, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, SUB, SUP, TABLE, TBODY, TD, TEXTAREA, TFOOT, TH, THEAD, TITLE, TR, TT, U, UL, VAR, XMP