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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript Selecting Elements

Posted by Kyle Higginson
Kyle Higginson
9,600 Points

Getting a "looks like task 1 is no longer passing" error and I'm not sure why.

"Select the second SPAN element on the page and assign it to the variable lastName on line 2. Take a look in the index.html to see the structure of the document."

Once I give my second answer it says task one is no longer passing. please help.

Here is my code:

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

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Kyle;

It should be getElementsByTagName (plural elements). That is the syntax error which kicks it back to Task 1.

Ken

Kyle Higginson
Kyle Higginson
9,600 Points

doh!