javascript parentNode is undefined

Asked Jun 18 '16 at 21:31

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Here is my HTML markup -

<div>
  <div class="my_class">
   // some code goes here...
  </div>
</div>

And when I try to get parent as follows, It returns undefined.

document.getElementsByClassName('my_class').parentNode  // returns undefined

I want to remove element having class 'my_class' as follows -

document.getElementsByClassName('my_class').parentNode.removeChild(document.getElementsByClassName('my_class'))

But I'm not able to access parentNode.

asked Jun 18 '16 at 21:31

Suyash Soni

`getElementsByClassName` returns a collection, not a single element. – elclanrs Jun 18 '16 at 21:32
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try `getElementsByClassName("my_class")[0]` – Redu Jun 18 '16 at 21:33
@elclanrs Thanks man! document.getElementsByClassName('my_class')[0].parentNode did the trick. – Suyash Soni Jun 18 '16 at 21:34
@SuyashSoni Had you used a debugger or console.log, you could have seen that `getElementsByClassName` didn't return a single value. – Jeremy J Starcher Jun 18 '16 at 23:53

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