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

jiwan gurung
jiwan gurung
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Posted by jiwan gurung
jiwan gurung
4,248 Points

i am stuck.can anyone tell me the difference between getelementsbyid and queryselectorAll?

why do i need to target the <ul>,<li> tag inside the nav element? isnt just document.queryselectorAll('nav') goin to be enough to target all those elements? and also i am confused when and where we use getelementsbyid and queryselector. can anyone tell me the difference? thank you

js/app.js 
let navigationLinks = document.querySelectorAll("nav");
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>

1 Answer

Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Hi Jiwan,

Document.getElementById will specifically select an element by it's id. It is important to remember that only one element is ever selected. For example, this HTML element with ID of btn

<button id="btn">Click Me</button>

can be selected by the following JavaScript statement which selects the ID of btn.

let clickMe = document.getElementById('btn');

Document.querySelectorAll will select a list of multiple elements. It returns a list of elements based on the query you give it. The answer you are giving will only select the nav element based on your query.

let navigationLinks = document.querySelectorAll("nav");

The challenge is asking only for the links located underneath the nav element. This is done the same way as selecting elements with CSS styling. To do this, add the a tag after the nav tag. With the below example ONLY the a tags are selected that are nested underneath nav. The nav element itself is NOT selected.

let navigationLinks = document.querySelectorAll("nav a");

I hope this makes sense.