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

Posted by Motuma Kaba
Motuma Kaba
11,960 Points

It keep saying Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing. Get Help

How to get past this challenge ?

app.js 
//Select the navigation
var navigation = document.getElementById("navigation");

//Select all listItems from the navigation
var listItems  = navigation .children;


//When a navigation link is pressed
var linkListener = function() {
  console.log("Listener is clicked!");
}

var bindEventsToLinks = function(listItem(a)) {
  var anchor = listItem.querySelector("a");
 //Select the anchor
  //Bind the linkListener to the anchor element (a) 
  anchor.onclick = linkListener;
}

for(var i = 0; i < listItems.length ; i++) {
    bindEventsToLinks(listItems[i]);
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>

<ul id="navigation">
  <li>
    <a href="#home">Home</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="#about">About</a>
  </li>
  <li>    
    <a href="#contact">Contact</a>
  </li>
</ul>

<p>A few of my favourite things:</p>
<ul>
  <li>
    Rain drops on roses
  </li>
  <li>
    Whiskers on kittens
  </li>
  <li>
    Brown paper packages wrapped up with string
  </li>
</ul>

<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Tim Rach
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Tim Rach
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,127 Points
Tim Rach
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Tim Rach
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,127 Points

Line 13. As first task you had to
append .children at line 5

var listItems  = navigation .children;

As second task "On line 14 of the app.js, we want to get the anchor (the a element) from inside the listItem." you just need to fix line 14.

var bindEventsToLinks = function(listItem) {

and not

var bindEventsToLinks = function(listItem(a)) {
Motuma Kaba
Motuma Kaba
11,960 Points
Motuma Kaba
Motuma Kaba
11,960 Points

@Time, I appriciate your help but your answer did not help me.

Here is the actually answer:

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