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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Traversing Elements

Brian Schmitz
Brian Schmitz
11,167 Points
Posted by Brian Schmitz
Brian Schmitz
11,167 Points

Selecting children of listItem

What would I need to do to select the list item in this challenge where I am trying to select the children of the listItem in the unordered list?

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Brain,

The challenge is requesting us to get all the LI elements in the parent variable navigation and assign them back to the listItems variable.

var listItems = navigation.getElementsByTagName('li');

getElementsByTagName

Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You could also use the children property.