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

Posted by Cesar Cortes
Cesar Cortes
1,203 Points

Trying to complete this excercise. Not sure what's wrong with my code.

The exercise calls for selecting the second SPAN element on the page (html) and assigning to the variable lastName. I keep getting an error. Below is my code. Help is appreciated. Thanks.

var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("h1")[1];

app.js 
var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");
var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("h1")[1];
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

anil rahman
anil rahman
7,786 Points
anil rahman
anil rahman
7,786 Points 
var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");
var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName('span')[1];
Cesar Cortes
Cesar Cortes
1,203 Points
Cesar Cortes
Cesar Cortes
1,203 Points

Thank you Anil!