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JavaScript

Posted by brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points

Why isn't this children property working?

What am I doing wrong?

document.getElementsByTagName('nav').children;
jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points

Please either:

  • Paste your whole code in this question,
  • Paste your whole code in codePen and then copy the URL and paste it here. Or,
  • Tell us which video you're stuck on :-)

1 Answer

Tushar Singh
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Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points
Tushar Singh
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points

Hint, you are missing something with your children property.

Will .toUpperCase work? Nope

brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points

I dont think children is a method I tried it though to see and its not working. I'm confused because I thought children was a property with an array value of the elements children but a lot of the elements dont seem to have it a property. It looks like i'm adding an empty property to a lot of element when I try using this? I'm testing in the treehouse site console

brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points

nevermind I figured it out I needed to specify it was the first in the array returned by .getElementsByTagName 

document.getElementsByTagName('nav')[0].children;