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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Getting a Handle on the DOM Practice Selecting Elements

Simarjeet Kaur
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Simarjeet Kaur
Courses Plus Student 1,364 Points
Posted by Simarjeet Kaur
Simarjeet Kaur
Courses Plus Student 1,364 Points

How Can I get list of all the link inside the nav tag.

<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>

js/app.js 
let navigationLinks= document.querySelectorAll('#navigation>li>a');
let galleryLinks;
let footerImages;
index.html 
<!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>&copy; 2016 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  <script src="js/app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

You're pretty close here.

But there's no element with an id of "navigation". Besides, you can simplify your selector a good bit.

The instructions asked for "all links in the nav element", and you can translate that directly into a descendent selector ("nav a").

Simarjeet Kaur
Simarjeet Kaur
Courses Plus Student 1,364 Points
Simarjeet Kaur
Simarjeet Kaur
Courses Plus Student 1,364 Points

Thanks Steven. It worked. And I was juggling like anything to go through. Thank you

Michael Liendo
Michael Liendo
15,326 Points
Michael Liendo
Michael Liendo
15,326 Points

For problems like this, I hope you don't mind but I'm more for giving clues than the answer as I helps make the solution really stick.

In your code: let navigationLinks= document.querySelectorAll('#navigation>li>a');

You're saying: "give me all the anchor tags, that are in list elements, that have an id of "navigation".

So in your index.html file, your links should reflect that statement.

Michael Liendo
Michael Liendo
15,326 Points
Michael Liendo
Michael Liendo
15,326 Points

Hope that helps, and I'm more than happy to continue helping you if that seems too cryptic.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

What it actually translates into is:
give me all the anchor tags, that are in list elements, that are inside some element with an id of "navigation"

Simarjeet Kaur
Simarjeet Kaur
Courses Plus Student 1,364 Points
Simarjeet Kaur
Simarjeet Kaur
Courses Plus Student 1,364 Points

That was so simple. I was fetching for li instead of anchor tag. Thank you.