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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Getting a Handle on the DOM Practice Selecting Elements

Sam Matthews
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Posted by Sam Matthews
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Sam Matthews
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 17,074 Points

document.getElementsByName

I can't seem to sort the first answer to this one. I've tried using w3 schools and running through the different DOM methods: document.getElementsByTagName('nav'); document.querySelectorAll('nav')

Can anyone help?

js/app.js 
let navigationLinks = document.getElementById('nav');
let galleryLinks;
let footerImages;
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul id="gallery">
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2016 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  <script src="js/app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>
Cooper Runstein
Cooper Runstein
11,850 Points
Cooper Runstein
Cooper Runstein
11,850 Points

The challenge wants you to collect all the links in the navigationLink variable, which are the <a> tags, not the <nav> tags. 

let navigationLinks = document.getElementById('nav').querySelectorAll("li");

1 Answer

Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points

Hi Sam, one method you could use is:

var navigationLinks = document.getElementsByTagName('nav')[0].getElementsByTagName('a');

getElementsByTagName gives us an array of the elements with the tag name, in this case nav, we know we want the first instance of nav (the only instance in this case) so we grab it by selecting it with [0], we can then use the same getElementsByTagName method on this element to return the list of links

Hope that helps!!