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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Traversing the DOM Child Traversal

Posted by Sean Marevanhema
Sean Marevanhema
11,605 Points

child element

can someone help me

app.js 
const section = document.querySelector('section');
let paragraphs = section.querySelectorAll('p');
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Child Traversal</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <section>
            <p>This is the first paragraph</p>
            <p>This is a slightly longer, second paragraph</p>
            <p>Shorter, last paragraph</p>
        </section>
        <footer>
            <p>&copy; 2019</p> 
        </footer>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Oliver Duran
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Oliver Duran
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 22,828 Points
Oliver Duran
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Oliver Duran
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 22,828 Points

The challenge is asking you to select all the children from section in order to do that you need to use the children property as shown below.

var section = document.querySelector('section');
var paragraphs = section.children;