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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Traversing Elements

Joshua Bivens
Joshua Bivens
8,586 Points
Posted by Joshua Bivens
Joshua Bivens
8,586 Points

"Use a method to traverse and select the anchor."

The challenge is to select the anchor tag inside of listItem.

var anchor = listItem;

So I have

var anchor = listItem.getElementByTagName("a");

What am I doing wrong?

2 Answers

Robert Bojor
PLUS
Robert Bojor
Courses Plus Student 29,439 Points
Robert Bojor
Robert Bojor
Courses Plus Student 29,439 Points

Hi Joshua,

You should use the .querySelector() method and instruct it to for for the a tag.

var anchor = listItem.querySelector('a');
Jonathan Sandlund
Jonathan Sandlund
3,972 Points
Jonathan Sandlund
Jonathan Sandlund
3,972 Points

Bug here, I believe. listItem isn't defined elsewhere in the JS. Doesn't ask us to create it either. (Perhaps it should?)