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JavaScript

Posted by Emilio Meira
Emilio Meira
11,059 Points

Code problems...

Guys, on the course "Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript", "Selecting Elements" challenge, objective #2, if I paste the code below:

var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name"); var lastName = document.getElementByTagName("span")[1];

The previous objective stops passing. Can you tell me what's wrong?

Thanks,

Emilio

2 Answers

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,695 Points

The second line should be

var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[1];
Kofi Owusu Acheampong
Kofi Owusu Acheampong
20,320 Points

Yes, your answer should be as above. The difference being that you are missing the character s in your method name. document.getElementsByTagName

Emilio Meira
Emilio Meira
11,059 Points
Emilio Meira
Emilio Meira
11,059 Points

Thanks, guys, that was it! The funny thing, though, is that it started telling me that task one was no longer passing instead of giving me a syntax error. But I guess workspace is not a full compiler, hence why... :)

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,695 Points

yep, you can occasionally get incorrect messages, which can be related to how verification of a task is accomplished (which varies)