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Start your free trialBrendan Dzeguze
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 14,567 PointsMy code isnt running.
The site says TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object(evaluating 'listitems[i].style'). what is going on? can someone help me?
var listItems = document.getElementById('rainbow');
var colors = ["#C2272D", "#F8931F", "#FFFF01", "#009245", "#0193D9", "#0C04ED", "#612F90"];
for(var i = 0; i < colors.length; i ++) {
listItems[i].style.color = colors[i];
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Rainbow!</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="rainbow">
<li>This should be red</li>
<li>This should be orange</li>
<li>This should be yellow</li>
<li>This should be green</li>
<li>This should be blue</li>
<li>This should be indigo</li>
<li>This should be violet</li>
</ul>
<script src="js/app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
Rabin Gharti Magar
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 20,928 PointsHey Brendan Dzeguze,
getElementById()
method returns a single element object. You can use querySelectorAll()
method which returns a node list.
In the following code I have used querySelectorAll()
method followed by a descendant selector
to select its children <li> elements
.
var listItems = document.querySelectorAll('#rainbow li');
var colors = ["#C2272D", "#F8931F", "#FFFF01", "#009245", "#0193D9", "#0C04ED", "#612F90"];
for(var i = 0; i < colors.length; i ++) {
listItems[i].style.color = colors[i];
}
Hope this helps!