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Selection.prev([selector])

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Selection.prev([selector])

Get the immediately preceding sibling of each element in the set of matched elements. Mimics jquery.prev.

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

Returns

Type	Description
Selection	A Selection.

Example

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);
}