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JavaScript

Posted by shirapatuladhar
shirapatuladhar
3,102 Points

Change color for an individual list element.

How can we select individual elements ? The code above doesn't seem to work. Can someone guide me as to what can be done to select li's and change their color when we click on them.

const mylist = document.getElementsByTagName('li');

for (i=0;i < mylist.length; i+=1){
  console.log(mylist);
     mylist[i].addEventListener('click',function(){
     mylist[i].style.color = 'green';
});

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,974 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,974 Points

Change mylist[i] to this and you should be good to go.

const mylist = document.getElementsByTagName('li');

for (i=0;i < mylist.length; i+=1){
  console.log(mylist[i]);
  mylist[i].addEventListener('click',function(){
  this.style.color = 'green';})
};
shirapatuladhar
shirapatuladhar
3,102 Points
shirapatuladhar
shirapatuladhar
3,102 Points

That works , but isn't it the same thing ?