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

Posted by Enrique Gomez-Salas
Enrique Gomez-Salas
19,437 Points

How do I select all links in the unordered list with the id of "gallery"

I can't seem to figure out how to do this. What video is this related to? and what is the solution?

js/app.js 
let navigationLinks = document.querySelectorAll("nav a");
let galleryLinks = document.querySelector("#gallery a");
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>

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You're doing really well here, so I'm just going to give a hint. Your selector for galleryLinks would work except that you're only selecting one link. It wants you to select all links. Remember that document.querySelectorAll returns a list of items that match whereas document.querySelector only returns the first match.

Try again with these hints in mind! :sparkles:

Enrique Gomez-Salas
Enrique Gomez-Salas
19,437 Points

Ok problem solved haha! Thanks a lot!

ysantana
ysantana
9,579 Points
ysantana
ysantana
9,579 Points

Hi Enrique, You are doing really good and close to finding the right solution. There is many possible ways to solve this problem, I wouldn't like to give you the complete answer, but better I will like to point to check out the CSS query selectors here -> take a look into CSS Query selectors http://api.jquery.com/child-selector/.

Have fun and Happy Coding :)!

Enrique Gomez-Salas
Enrique Gomez-Salas
19,437 Points

I gottsit!! Thanks a lot Yeramin!