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

Posted by Mauro Bonucci
Mauro Bonucci
5,953 Points

Select the second SPAN element on the page and assign it to the variable lastName on line

Hello, in this challenge i tryed this way:

var lastName = document.getElementsByClassName("last_name")[1];

It looks it didnt work maybe because isnt the way the challenge wants to be done, but the way i did is it ok?

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Mauro,

That could work but there's only one element retrieved with that class name and so you would access it at index 0, not 1.

I think the challenge wants you to use getElementsByTagName instead though. In this case, 2 span's would be retrieved and you would want the second one which is at index 1.

var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");
var lastName = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[1];