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

Aaron Gibson
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Aaron Gibson
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Posted by Aaron Gibson
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Aaron Gibson
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My code functions as asked but I keep receiving a fail.

I wrote code that iterates through each paragraph element and replaces the background as blue as described in the challenge. I'm not sure what I'm missing or why I'm not receiving a pass for it.

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

for (let i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i++){
paragraphs[i].style.backgroundColor = '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

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

You're really close here. The instructions say, "For every paragraph element change the color to be blue. "

But this code is changing the background color instead.