Reply To: 1.3.04 – Traversing the DOM – Differences between parentElement and parentNode

[John]

Hi Zac,

I just reviewed the video again and it was good to reconsider the lesson for reinforcement.

this time I thought I would experiment with the example page for 1.3.3.2 by addressing elements within and then drilling down further. an example being ‘div’.

I if do this I get an array of 3 elements

div1 = document.getElementsByTagName ( ‘div’ );

and if I console.log the 2nd element out (console.log ( div1[1] ) 😉 I see: div id=”contact”>

but if I try to set view an element within this 2nd element I error.

ie: console.log (div1[1].getSelector( ‘p’ ) );

In fact, a clue that I am going wrong is that the auto complete text does not make suggestions. even if I console.log (div1……..)

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

John.