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

daniel wilson
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daniel wilson
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Next, change the color of each child paragraph to blue. (Remember: paragraphs is a collection of elements, so you'll fi

Next, change the color of each child paragraph to blue.

(Remember: paragraphs is a collection of elements, so you'll first need to use a loop to access each element in the collection.)

am i getting close? lol

app.js
var section = document.querySelector('section');
var paragraphs = section.children;
if (paragraphs.children) {
paragraphs.style.color = 'blue';
}
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>

3 Answers

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

for (var i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i += 1) {
   paragraphs[i].style.color = "blue";
}

You need to loop through the paragraphs meaning all the children of the section element and then only assign the blue color. This should work. Hope this helps)))

Alexandra Velez
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Alexandra Velez
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I got stuck on this challenge.

Initially, I wrote,

for (var i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i += 1) { paragraphs[i].style.color = "blue"; }

Why did you include [i]? I thought it implicitly JS knows to loop through all paragraph elements.

Tadjiev Codes - Thank you! All I was missing was the [i]!

Hi, Alexandra, the [i] in paragraph provides the index for the paragraph to modify the color, so [0] would modify the first pararaph, while the [i] woudl go (loop) through all the paragraphs and provide them with the color property