
Olivia Culver
6,906 PointsHelp! How do I select the DOM descendants?
For the first variable, navigationLinks I tried: document.getElementsByTagName('nav li'); but that doesn't work. If I just select the <li> tag then I select too many links. But it also seems like it won't let me put in the descendant selector this way either. How do I select the descendant <li> tags of the <nav> tag?
let navigationLinks;
let galleryLinks;
let footerImages;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<a href="index.html" id="logo">
<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
<h2>Designer</h2>
</a>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
<div id="wrapper">
<section>
<ul id="gallery">
<li>
<a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
<img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
<p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
<img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
<p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<footer>
<a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
<a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
<p>© 2016 Nick Pettit.</p>
</footer>
</div>
<script src="js/app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer

Guil Hernandez
Treehouse TeacherHi Olivia Culver. The challenge asks that you select all links inside the <nav>
element. You select links with a
and I see that you're currently selecting li
. Hope this helps. :)
seongho kang
2,764 Pointsseongho kang
2,764 PointsHi Guil Hernandz,
let navigationLinks = document.getElementsByTagName("nav a"); is this correct?
i cannot get it. Could you explain more?