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Jarrett Young
12,635 PointsI'm having trouble completing the code challenge in the section following this video. Can't pass the second step.
my code is as follows:
var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name"); var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("last_name")[1];
any ideas what I'm doing wrong? any help would be greatly appreciated!!
3 Answers
Jeff Everhart
21,732 PointsIn your second variable it looks like you are using the "last_name" id or class when you should be using an HTML tag. If #last_name is a paragraph, try document.getElementsByTagName("p")[1];
Also, remember that JS uses zero indexing for most things, so if you are trying to select the first 'P' tag, you will need to use [0]. Hope that helps. If not, can you post some more specifics about what the challenge is asking?
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsHi, Jarrett, getElementsByTagName selection isn't right here, you should select the span tag.
var lastName =document.getElementsByTagName("span")[1];
Jarrett Young
12,635 PointsIt worked! Yay! Jeff, you were right. I had to select the second "span" element. William, of course you were correct also, but I just happened to figure it out a few seconds before I saw your response.
Thanks so much!!