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title: "Selection.prev([selector]) | Grafana k6 documentation"
description: "Get the immediately preceding sibling of each element in the set of matched elements."
---

# Selection.prev(\[selector])

Get the immediately preceding sibling of each element in the set of matched elements. Mimics [jquery.prev](https://api.jquery.com/prev/).

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| Parameter           | Type   | Description                                                          |
|---------------------|--------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| selector (optional) | string | A string containing a selector expression to match elements against. |

### Returns

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| Type                                                         | Description  |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|
| [Selection](/docs/k6/next/javascript-api/k6-html/selection/) | A Selection. |

### Example

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```javascript
import { parseHTML } from 'k6/html';
import { sleep } from 'k6';

export default function () {
  const content = `
<ul>
  <li>list item 1</li>
  <li>list item 2</li>
  <li class="third-item">list item 3</li>
  <li>list item 4</li>
  <li>list item 5</li>
</ul>
  `;
  const doc = parseHTML(content);
  const sel = doc.find('li.third-item').prev();

  console.log(sel.html());

  sleep(1);
}
```