{"json_modified": "2016-10-05T01:52:50.280113", "uuid": "8ca62d85-113d-4cea-b171-5f7dabe66bdd", "title": "NodeFilter", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeFilter", "tags": ["API", "DOM", "DOM Reference"], "translations": [], "modified": "2016-10-05T01:52:50", "label": "NodeFilter", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 7506, "last_edit": "2015-11-18T11:59:15", "summary": "A <strong><code>NodeFilter</code></strong> interface represents an object used to filter the nodes in a <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeIterator\" title=\"The NodeIterator interface represents an iterator over the members of a list of the nodes in a subtree of the DOM. The nodes will be returned in document order.\"><code>NodeIterator</code></a> or <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/TreeWalker\" title=\"The TreeWalker object represents the nodes of a document subtree and a position within them.\"><code>TreeWalker</code></a>. They don't know anything about the DOM or how to traverse nodes; they just know how to evaluate a single node against the provided filter.", "sections": [{"id": "Quick_Links", "title": null}, {"id": "Properties", "title": "Properties"}, {"id": "Methods", "title": "Methods"}, {"id": "Example", "title": "Example"}, {"id": "Specification", "title": "Specifications"}, {"id": "Browser_compatibility", "title": "Browser compatibility"}, {"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Web/API/NodeFilter", "review_tags": []}