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17,538 Pointsnavigation.querySelector
Hi,
I am not sure how to solve it or what you wanna to do from me?
I tried to get the list by navigation.querySelector(ul.li);
or something like this but I don't fully understand your question.
Thanks,
//Select the naviagation
var navigation = document.getElementById("navigation");
//Select all listItems from the navigation
var listItems = navigation.querySelector("ul.li");
//When a navigation link is pressed
var linkListener = function() {
console.log("Listener is clicked!");
}
var bindEventsToLinks = function(listItem) {
//Select the anchor
var anchor = listItem;
//Bind the linkListener to the anchor element (a)
anchor.onclick = linkListener;
}
for(var i = 0; i < listItems.length ; i++) {
bindEventsToLinks(listItems[i]);
}
<!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>
3 Answers
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsYou have two separate issues here:
- because of the period, the selector "ul.li" would look for a UL that has the class "li". But you want to select the list items themselves ("ul li" or just "li").
- querySelector only returns the first item that matches. But you want the whole set (querySelectorAll).
Lindsay Sauer
12,029 PointsHi Kien,
It looks like it is asking you to use the .children selector:
var listItems = navigation.children;
Kien Doan
17,538 PointsHi Lindsay,
Yes I got it but have no idea why children. It was not in any previous videos.
Thank you anyway.