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

Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points

Select the H1 tag with the id of full_name and assign it to the variable fullName on line 1. Take a look in the index.ht

Select the H1 tag with the id of full_name and assign it to the variable fullName on line 1. Take a look in the index.html to see the structure of the document

How exactly do i do this?

app.js
var fullName;
var lastName;
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>

2 Answers

Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points

what about this.......Select the second SPAN element on the page and assign it to the variable lastName on line 2. Take a look in the index.html to see the structure of the document.

Aaron Martone
Aaron Martone
3,290 Points
var fullName = document.getElementById('full_name');

Going by what you said. You want the variable fullName to be assigned to the element (not its value) whose id attribute is set to a value of full_name. Do understand, though, thatfullNameis pointing to the element, and in no way holds the textual valueAndrew Chalkley`. It's merely a pointer to the element.

Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points

what about this........Select the second SPAN element on the page and assign it to the variable lastName on line 2. Take a look in the index.html to see the structure of the document.