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

Chris Gutierrez
Chris Gutierrez
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Posted by Chris Gutierrez
Chris Gutierrez
6,911 Points

What am i not doing correct?

I thought i could select the element by tag name but it is telling me that 1 is no longer being passed through. why is that?

app.js 
var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");
var lastName = document.getElmentsByTagName("span")[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>

1 Answer

James Anwyl
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James Anwyl
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 49,960 Points

Hi Chris,

You have a typo in your 2nd statement. getElments should be getElements.

var lastName = document.getElmentsByTagName("span")[1];

// Should be:
var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[1];

Hope this helps :)

Chris Gutierrez
Chris Gutierrez
6,911 Points
Chris Gutierrez
Chris Gutierrez
6,911 Points

Thank you so much didn't catch that.

James Anwyl
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James Anwyl
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 49,960 Points

No problem :)