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JavaScript

Posted by luisgomez7
luisgomez7
5,557 Points

Return Elements Using CSS Selectors

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/javascript-and-the-dom-3/getting-a-handle-on-the-dom/return-elements-using-css-selectors

I keep getting error messages no matter what approach I use to answer the first of these objectives in the link above.

Here's the question:

"In this challenge, you're going to select various elements from index.html. First, select all <a> elements inside the <nav> element and assign them to the variable navigationLinks. (HINT: Use a descendant selector to match elements that are descendants of an element.) "

After many different attempts, this is the closest I can get:

let navigationLinks = document.querySelectorAll('nav');

Here's the error message I get:

"Bummer: Make sure that you're selecting 3 links. It looks like you've selected 1 links."

What am I doing wrong?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

You haven't actually selected any links, but the response is correct that you selected just one element.

The instructions ask you to "select all <a> elements inside the <nav> element", but what that code does is to select all <nav> elements (and there is only one). To select elements that are inside another element you can use a descendant selector, which is the container selector combined with the target selector using a space. So to select all <a> elements inside the <nav> your selector would be "nav a".

luisgomez7
luisgomez7
5,557 Points

That worked! Thank you for your help.