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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Traversing the DOM Child Traversal

Posted by Sjoerd Vermeijden
Sjoerd Vermeijden
5,840 Points

Why isn't this working?

I am not seeing it for some reason. Btw the first task runs fine but now it says task 1 is no longer passing

app.js 
const section = document.querySelector('section');
let paragraphs = section.children;

paragraphs.style.color = 'blue';
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Child Traversal</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <section>
            <p>This is the first paragraph</p>
            <p>This is a slightly longer, second paragraph</p>
            <p>Shorter, last paragraph</p>
        </section>
        <footer>
            <p>&copy; 2016</p> 
        </footer>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

.children will give you an array of elements. To set the array of paragraphs to blue, you need to iterate through each one in the array.