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parentElement

Overview​

Use the parentElement command to get the parent element of the selected DOM element.

Usage​

await browser.$(selector).parentElement();

Usage Examples​

index.html

<div class="parent">
    <p>Sibling One</p>
    <p>Sibling Two</p>
    <p>Sibling Three</p>
</div>

parentElement.js

it("should get class from parent element", async ({ browser }) => {
    const elem = await browser.$$("p");
    const parent = await elem[2].parentElement();

    console.log(await parent.getAttribute("class")); // outputs: "parent"
});

References​

We'd like to give credit to the original WebdriverIO docs article, from which we drew some information while writing our version.