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Javano Collins
9,108 PointsWhy do we need a for loop for change the h2 elements?
Why do we need a for loop for change the h2 elements?
4 Answers
Marc Sanchez
20,039 PointsThe question asked, "Select all the <h2> elements in the document." "ALL" h2 elements You can use 'querySelectorAll' in place of 'getElementsByTagName'. They'll both work the same.
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,970 PointsThere may be more than one. The getElementsByTagName() method used in the video returns a collection of elements. The for loop is used to iterate over the collection.
Marvin Müller
8,884 PointsYea I also was iritated by the fact that you can't just use document.querySelectorAll() xD Anyone can describe why that is?
Denzell Loria
3,671 PointsThere are more than one <h2> elements. He used getElementsByTagName('h2') to get all headers. since there are more than one <h2> tags found and he wants to change all <h2> tag, he used for loop to iterate through all <h2> tags found by getElementsByTagName('h2').
Denzell Loria
3,671 PointsMarvin Müller document.querySelectorAll() is a CSS Selector, it only finds all elements in a document that has a specific css. for example: document.querySelectorAll('.example'); it will get all elements that has class of 'example' on their HTML tag.
<p class = 'example'>Example paragraph </p> <h1 class = 'example'>Example Header 1</h1> <h2 class = 'h2sample'>Example Header 2</h2> <-- this is not included since it has a different class of CSS
Tylor Boisvert
12,421 PointsYou need to use a for loop because the querySelectorAll() returns a collection of html elements which is an array. You have to iterate through each element in the array and individually set each property for the code to work. Imagine trying to set an array of strings to a single string value, it doesn't really make sense right?