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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal DOM Traversal with jQuery

Guy Lachapelle
Guy Lachapelle
6,226 Points
Posted by Guy Lachapelle
Guy Lachapelle
6,226 Points

I'm stuck.. I can't find the answer to this exercise.

Please give me the answer, so I can move on...

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h2>Student List</h2>

  <ul class="student-list">
    <li>James McAvoy</li>
    <li>Alena Holligan</li>
    <li>Wade Christensen</li>
    <li>Matt Krzyzynski</li>
  </ul>

  <script src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
$('li').eq(2);

$('li').eq(2).prev();

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

You can chain prev() more than once if you need to. Also unlike many of the challenges in this one you modify your code from task 1 so you will only have one line of code.

Guy Lachapelle
Guy Lachapelle
6,226 Points
Guy Lachapelle
Guy Lachapelle
6,226 Points

Hey, thanks Kris, it worked !