IElementTraversal interface

Provides properties for traversing elements in a document. Conceptually, using this property is the same as using a NodeIterator that filters out everthing except for elements. Because traversing elements is the most common use case for developers, this property offers a simpler interface API.

Members

The IElementTraversal interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. IElementTraversal also has these types of members:

• Properties

Properties

The IElementTraversal interface has these properties.

Property	Description
childElementCount	Retrieves the number of immediate child nodes of the current element or a zero if the element does not contain any child nodes. IElementTraversal::childElementCount does not return all child nodes, only child nodes that are IHTMLDOMNode::nodeType =1, or element nodes.
firstElementChild	Retrieves a reference to the first child element, or NULL if there are no child elements.
lastElementChild	Retrieves a reference to the last child element or NULL if there are no child elements.
nextElementSibling	Retrieves a reference to the sibling element that immediately follows or NULL if the element does not have any sibling elements that follow it.
previousElementSibling	Retrieves a reference to the immediately preceding sibling element or NULL if the element does not have any preceding siblings.

 

Requirements

Minimum supported client	Windows Vista with SP1, Windows 7
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 R2
Header	Mshtml.h
IDL	Mshtml.idl
DLL	Mshtml.dll

See also

IDispatch