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Andrew Alvarez
11,964 PointsSelecting Elements
Challenge Task 2 of 2
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.
Bummer! Try using the getElementsByTagName() method and using the second index (1).
What am I doing wrong?
var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");
var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("last_name")(1);
<!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
Hugo Paz
15,622 PointsHi Andrew,
getElementsByTagName returns elements with the tag you pass to it. You are passing it an Id. It returns an array of elements with that tag (in this case its a span). To access an array position, you use square brackets [].
So the code should be look like this:
var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[1];
Abe Layee
8,378 PointsI think the problem is from the curly braces and you're not selecting the right element.
var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[1];