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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal What is Traversal?

Boby Vilayvong
Boby Vilayvong
13,039 Points

The "What is Traversing?" link in the Teacher's note has a 404 - Page not found error. ?

The "What is Traversing?" link in the Teacher's note has a 404 - Page not found error. ?

Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_htmldom_navigation.asp

It's as simple thing as moving up or down on DOM tree. Say you have selected ul element and want to change its child elements. Then you can traverse to it's child elements (li).

You would want to do because you want to iterate over all child elements and selecting every child separately is inconvenient or because you have a good selector (id or class) only for the parent element and so on.

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,186 Points

That link seems to have a typo in it, the actual link is jQuery Travsersing.

You may want to report the typo to the Support staff.

Boby Vilayvong
Boby Vilayvong
13,039 Points

Yeah the Support staff knows about it. Thanks guys!