HTML DOM setStartAfter() method

Last Updated : 21 Jun, 2023

The HTML DOM Range setStartAfter() method sets the starting position of a Range. An element used to set the starting point range is the referenceNode element. In this method, the reference element used is not included in the range.

Syntax:

range.setStartAfter(refNode);

Parameters:

referenceNode element: The Node which is used to set the starting of the range.

Return Value: This method has no return value.

Example: This example will show how to set the starting of the range using setStartAfter(). Also in this example, I also used setEndAfter() method to set the ending of the range. The start reference node here is the first <i> element of the document.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>
          HTML DOM range setStartAfter() property
      </title>
</head>
 
<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <p>
        The range will start after
        1st element in italics<i> RangeStart</i> 
        The range started after 1st i
        element <i>RangeEnd</i>
    </p>
 
    <script>
        let range = document.createRange();
        let refNode1 = document.getElementsByTagName("i").item(0);
        let refNode2 = document.getElementsByTagName("i").item(1);
        range.setStartAfter(refNode1);
        range.setEndAfter(refNode2);
        console.log(range);
        console.log(range.toString())
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>