Get the Parent of an Element

To get the parent of an element, you use the parentNode property of the element.

The following code gets the parent node of the element with the id main:

const current = document.querySelector('#main');
const parent = current.parentNode;Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

How it works:

• First, select the element with the CSS selector #main
• Then, use the parentNode property to get the parent element of the selected element.