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JavaScript

TzeYang Chew
TzeYang Chew
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Posted by TzeYang Chew
TzeYang Chew
12,039 Points

Hi, I am stuck at adding class to my a tag from it's own id in javascript without jquery.

Hi, I am stuck at adding class to my a tag in javascript without jquery. It seem the matchingHeaderLink is point to the id of that a tag , but how do i create a class from that id? This is the error that i got below, Uncaught TypeError: Cannot create property 'className' on string '#our-beginning-link'

createPageSectionsWaypoints() {
    var that = this;
    this.pageSections.forEach(
      item =>
        new Waypoint({
          element: item,
          handler: () => {
            let matchingHeaderLink = item.getAttribute("data-matching-link");
            matchingHeaderLink.className = "is-current-link";
          }
        })
    );
  }

<nav class="primary-nav primary-nav--pull-right">
          <ul>
            <li>
              <a href="#our-beginning" id="our-beginning-link">Our Beginning</a>
            </li>
            <li>
              <a href="#features" id="features-link">Features</a>
            </li>
            <li>
              <a href="#testimonials" id="testimonials-link">Testimonials</a>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </nav>

1 Answer

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Well first of all i cant see in your index.html "data-matching-link", but if you want to select element with id and then give it a class name it should look like this >> "document.getElementById("myDIV").classList.add("mystyle");"