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JavaScript

Posted by Ned Marafawi
Ned Marafawi
7,995 Points

My solution to Practice Traversing the DOM

Here's my solution!

// STARTING POINT
const list = document.querySelector('.list');

// 1: Store the first child of the `ul` in the variable `firstItem`
const firstItem = list.firstElementChild; 
firstItem.style.backgroundColor = '#04c5e6';

// 2: Using traversal, store the second list item in a variable named `nextItem`
const firstListItem = document.querySelector('li');
const nextItem =  firstListItem.parentElement.children[1];
nextItem.style.backgroundColor = '#b7c7d0';

// 3: Store the last child of the `ul` in a variable named `lastItem`
const lastItem =  list.lastElementChild;
lastItem.style.backgroundColor = '#57d6ab';

// 4: Using traversal, store the second-to-last list item in a variable named `prevItem`
const prevListItem = document.querySelector('li')
const prevItem = prevListItem.parentElement.children[2];  
prevItem.style.backgroundColor = '#f36f49';

// 5: Store the nested div in a variable named `banner`
const divBanner = document.getElementsByTagName('div')[1];
const banner = document.createElement('body');
banner.className = 'banner';
divBanner.appendChild(banner);

// 6: Using traversal, store the wrapper div in a variable named `wrapper`
const wrapperClass = document.querySelector('div');
const wrapper = wrapperClass.parentElement.children[0];
wrapper.style.backgroundColor = '#fcfcfc';

// 7: Using traversal, store the body in a variable named `body`
const bodyTag = document.querySelector('body')
const body = bodyTag.parentElement.children[0]; 
body.style.backgroundColor = '#f8fdf3';

I did my best it look almost the same as Guil, only the banner is a bit off on the corners. At least now I know that there's a simple and better solution to this kind of exercise.