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

Posted by Damjan Bozinovski
Damjan Bozinovski
9,916 Points

Child Traversal

app.js 
const section = document.querySelector('section');
let paragraphs = section.children;
for (let i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i++) {
  paragraphs.style.backgroundColor = 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; 2016</p> 
        </footer>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Strange, the URL to this question is https://teamtreehouse.com/community/a-10... :/

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points

I'm not sure what you mean by "a", but luckily, the button included your code and linked the challenge.

It looks like you have 3 issues:

  • the "paragraphs" collection doesn't have a "style", but you you can access individual elements by indexing
  • the instructions say to change the color (text color) of each item, not the background color
  • a literal color name must be enclosed in quotes to make it a string.
Damjan Bozinovski
Damjan Bozinovski
9,916 Points

I would like to delete these questions because I got what I wanted, and I think they can't be helpful to other people because they aren't sorted properly. Because of the title and etc.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,657 Points

Once a question has been answered, there's no longer an option to delete it, but you can always edit the question to provide a meaningful title and text. Click the rectangle with the 3 dots to expose the "Edit Question" option.