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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript Selecting Elements

It Keeps Saying Task 1 is no longer parsing when i know i am doing the right thing

Even though it parses the first time when i move on to task 2, task 1 no longer parses even if i don't change the code for task 1

app.js
var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");

var lastName = document.getElementByTagName("span")[0];
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1 id="full_name"><span class="first_name">Andrew</span> <span class="last_name">Chalkley</span></h1>

<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

akak
akak
29,445 Points

You have a typo getElement instead of getElements. Also since this is second "span" you want to put 1 in the brackets.

var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[1];