Just starting JQuery

Question

Hi Guys just starting jQuery and hit an issue with the first challenge....

On the next line, use jQuery to select all list items (li) in an unordered list (ul) with the class of 'nav'?

========================== My code:

$("#container"); $(".nav ul li");

========================== not sure what is wrong, any help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1 · 2013-02-09T18:31:20Z

February 9, 2013 6:31pm

The key to this question is understand that the <ul> element has a class of nav, in other words it's <ul class = "nav">.

So the HTML would look something like this:

<ul class="nav">
  <li></li>
</ul>

Now ask youself ... what is the CSS selector I would use to select all <li>s from the above markup?

Answer 2 · 2013-02-09T18:36:50Z

February 9, 2013 6:36pm

From your response i am now thinking i no longer need the <ul> identifier then and therefore my code becomes:

$(".nav li");

however this does not work either, i'm thinking i am missing something very obvious.

Answer 3 · 2013-02-09T18:43:12Z

February 9, 2013 6:43pm

Ahhhh it's ok, i've got it now and understand where i was going wrong.

Thanks for you help James.

Si.

Answer 4 · 2013-02-09T19:16:32Z

February 9, 2013 7:16pm

@Simon - Great job on figuring that out

That's probably the most asked question about a code challenge on the forum.

Answer 5 · 2013-02-09T23:24:44Z

February 9, 2013 11:24pm

The way the questions are phrased sometimes - they're like word problems. But that's OK.

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