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

Posted by James Ackerman
James Ackerman
14,099 Points

Select the second SPAN element on the page and assign it to the variable lastName on line 2. Take a look in the index.ht

Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong in my code?

app.js 
var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");
var lastName = document.getElementsByClassName("last_name");
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1 id="full_name"><span class="first_name">Andrew</span> <span class="last_name">Chalkley</span></h1>

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

2 Answers

Kieran Black
Kieran Black
9,139 Points

Hi James,

You are really close, the getElementsByClassName() method will return an array of matching objects even if only one object exists so you would need to access the object via the correct position in the array.

var fullName = document.getElementById("full_name");
var lastName = document.getElementsByClassName("last_name")[0];

Hope that helps.

KB :octopus:

James Ackerman
James Ackerman
14,099 Points
James Ackerman
James Ackerman
14,099 Points

That's it. Thank you, Kieran!