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Posted by Sadaf Partovi
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Sadaf Partovi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 14,594 Points

How can we decide which method to use when selecting an element.

Here it wants us to "Set the content of the '.desc' paragraph" in the video it uses "document.querySelector(".desc");". My question is why document.getElementsByClassName("desc"); won't work???

2 Answers

Christine Bogdan
Christine Bogdan
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Christine Bogdan
Christine Bogdan
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Hi there,

querySelector(".desc") returns the FIRST element in the document, that matches the specified selector. In contrast to that, getElementsByClassName returns an array of ALL elements in the document, that match the specified selector. If you want to access a specific element in that array, you need to use its index.

Hope this helps! :)

Sadaf Partovi
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Sadaf Partovi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 14,594 Points

Thanks for responding :)

JASON LEE
JASON LEE
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JASON LEE
JASON LEE
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I got mine to work using the getElementsByClassName("desc") with the only caveat to add a suffix to specify the array element or index, so instead of getElementsByClassName("desc"), I used getElementsByClassName("desc")[0]