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JavaScript One Solution

Michal Majewski
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Michal Majewski
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Michal Majewski
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For task #1. Why getElementsByTagName doesn't work in this case?

const title = document.getElementsByTagName('h1'); title.textContent = "Lorem Ipsum";

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Juan Lopez
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Juan Lopez
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Hello Michal,

The getElementsByTagName() method returns a collection of all elements in the document with the specified tag name, as an HTMLCollection object.

So if you wanted to use that method over querySelector then you would have to add an [0] to the end of the the getElementsByTagName() like so:

const title = document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0]; 
title.textContent = "Lorem Ipsum";
Michal Majewski
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Michal Majewski
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Michal Majewski
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Thanks Juan! I also figured out this is workin:

const title = document.getElementsByTagName('h1'); for (let i = 0; i < title.length; i++) { title[i].textContent = "Lorem Ipsum"; }

But of course that is totally wet not dry solution! Cheers, and thanks one more time!