HTML DOM setStartAfter() method

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>

Output: In the console, the range made with startOffset and endOffset can be seen.

Supported Browsers:

Google Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Safari
Opera

Article Tags :

HTML

JavaScript

Web Technologies

HTML-DOM