TreeWalker: root 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.root read-only property returns the root Node that the TreeWalker traverses.

Value

A Node object.

Examples

js
const treeWalker = document.createTreeWalker( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, { acceptNode(node) { return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT; }, }, false, ); root = treeWalker.root; // document.body in this case 

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# dom-treewalker-root

Browser compatibility

See also