XPathResult: singleNodeValue property

{{APIRef("DOM")}}

The read-only singleNodeValue property of the {{domxref("XPathResult")}} interface returns a {{domxref("Node")}} value or null in case no node was matched of a result with {{domxref("XPathResult.resultType")}} being ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE or FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE.

Value

The return value is the {{domxref("Node")}} value of the XPathResult returned by {{domxref("Document.evaluate()")}}.

Exceptions

TYPE_ERR

In case {{domxref("XPathResult.resultType")}} is not ANY_UNORDERED_NODE_TYPE or FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, a {{domxref("DOMException")}} of type TYPE_ERR is thrown.

Examples

The following example shows the use of the singleNodeValue property.

HTML

<div>XPath example</div>
<div>
  Tag name of the element having the text content 'XPath example':
  <output></output>
</div>

JavaScript

const xpath = "//*[text()='XPath example']";
const result = document.evaluate(
  xpath,
  document,
  null,
  XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE,
  null,
);
document.querySelector("output").textContent = result.singleNodeValue.localName;

Result

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Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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