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

Spencer Mendoza
Spencer Mendoza
6,978 Points
Posted by Spencer Mendoza
Spencer Mendoza
6,978 Points

How do I use a loop to change the color of elements within a variable?

Whenever I run this code it says that task 1 is no longer passing (task one was to assign all the child elements of 'section' to the variable 'paragraphs'). I haven't even touched that code but it passes every time I go back.

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

for (i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i += 1) {
  paragraphs[i].style.Color = '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>
Erick R
Erick R
5,293 Points
Erick R
Erick R
5,293 Points

Try to initialize the For loop variable i. 

for(let i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i += 1) {
............
............
}
for( var i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i += 1) {
.......................
................
}

Also apart from i not being initialized, style.color should be lower case as mentioned by Olga.

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

That message can be confusing until you know that any syntax error invalidates the entire script, so the re-checks of the previous tasks fail.

In this case, the syntax error is caused by a missing declaration (with "var" or "let") of the loop variable. The actual error was: "ReferenceError: Strict mode forbids implicit creation of global property 'i'"

You also have a spelling error where you wrote "Color" (with a capital "C") instead of "color" (lower case "c").

Olga DC
Olga DC
16,680 Points
Olga DC
Olga DC
16,680 Points

Hi Spencer. You have to write style.color all in small caps.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

I think you meant "lower case". The term "small caps" is a visual effect that does not occur in code.

Olga DC
Olga DC
16,680 Points
Olga DC
Olga DC
16,680 Points

Sorry, I meant "lower case", as Steven says. Thank you for the correction! :)

Spencer Mendoza
Spencer Mendoza
6,978 Points
Spencer Mendoza
Spencer Mendoza
6,978 Points

thanks guys, I just had to initialize the i variable with 'let'. Color was capitalized because I had it set as 'backgroundColor' before I realized that wasn't what I was trying to do lol.