30-seconds-of-code/snippets/elementContains.md

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elementContains	browser,intermediate

Checks if the parent element contains the child element.

• Check that parent is not the same element as child.
• Use Node.contains() to check if the parent element contains the child element.

const elementContains = (parent, child) =>
  parent !== child && parent.contains(child);

elementContains(document.querySelector('head'), document.querySelector('title'));
// true
elementContains(document.querySelector('body'), document.querySelector('body'));
// false