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Anthony Scott
Courses Plus Student 9,001 PointsIt looks right to me.....
it looks l correct to me...
How would you select the body element using document.getElementsByTagName, and store it in the variable body?
(Hint: Don't forget that this method returns a collection, not a single element.)
const body = document.getElementsByTagName('body');
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Tom Nicholson
3,216 PointsClose! It took me two attempts. The hint means that we might only want to select the first <body> tag. So we need to add [0] to the code. I'm not convinced this is a common real-world occurrence, nor does the question really seem to specify this, but this worked:
const body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
Stephen Limmex
32,604 PointsStephen Limmex
32,604 PointsAnthony,
I do not have an answer for your but rather I have the same question. Can anyone out there on the Treehouse forum explain to us what we are missing on this quiz question? We both entered the following as the answer to the following question:
How would you select the body element using document.getElementsByTagName, and store it in the variable body?
(Hint: Don't forget that this method returns a collection, not a single element.)
The answer that we incorrectly entered is as follows:
const body = document.getElementsByTagName('body');Thank you, Stephen