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Allison Littman
2,325 PointsHow do you retrieve a list within a navigation with only one variable declaration?
I went through the entire tutorial regarding different ways of selecting items from the HTML but none of them went specifically over this. How did you approach it? What other tutorials can you recommend?
2 Answers
Steven Parker
229,744 PointsThe return of a list vs. a single element is based on the method used. For example, document.querySelector returns one single element, but document.querySelectorAll returns an HTMLcollection, which is essentially a list of elements.
The latter when used with a descendant selector ("nav a") is a good solution for task 1 of the challenge.
Sahil Kapoor
8,932 PointsYou can use " document.querySelectorAll("nav li") ", where the value "nav li" is called the descendent selector which means that select all <li> element that is inside <nav> element; You can also use it with other HTML elements like "nav a" meaning select all anchor (<a>) element that is inside <nav> elements.
And for selecting elements in HTML use can watch:-
- jQuery Basics
- JavaScript and the DOM
- DOM scripting with example
Steven Parker
229,744 PointsClose, except that "li" elements are list items, but the challenge is asking for links.
Sahil Kapoor
8,932 Pointsoh I just read the question and thought that the question is to select the list items with in <nav> elements.