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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal DOM Traversal with jQuery

gladys padilla
gladys padilla
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Posted by gladys padilla
gladys padilla
7,909 Points

Can someone please help?

I've tried so many ways to solve this and now I'm going crazy! I've tried: prev(), prev().prev(),prev('li') and nothing! Could someone please explain? Thanks!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h2>Student List</h2>

  <ul class="student-list">
    <li>James McAvoy</li>
    <li>Alena Holligan</li>
    <li>Wade Christensen</li>
    <li>Matt Krzyzynski</li>
  </ul>

  <script src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
$('li').eq(2).css('Wade Christensen');
$('li').eq(2).prev('li').prev('li');

2 Answers

Antonio Pala
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Antonio Pala
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,928 Points
Antonio Pala
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Antonio Pala
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,928 Points

Hi Gladys, it seems you were adding some extra code. To get to Wade, all you need to put is:

$('li').eq(2);

And when chaining, you would do the following:

$('li').eq(2).prev().prev();

I hope this helps!

gladys padilla
gladys padilla
7,909 Points
gladys padilla
gladys padilla
7,909 Points

It worked! Thank you so much!!