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JavaScript CSS Selectors Quickstart The Role of Selectors in JavaScript Selectors in JavaScript Review

Posted by Hector Romero
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Hector Romero
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 2,810 Points

How to access data attribute with queryselector() on javascript correctly

I had trouble writing the data-attribute of an html document on javascript queryselector(). Inside queryselector I could not find out how to properly define and type so that it selects the data attribute correctly.

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Martin Sole
Martin Sole
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Martin Sole
Martin Sole
82,199 Points

Hi When selecting an attribute on an element it is the same as in CSS, where you place the attribute name in square brackets. So for the quiz it would be document.querySelector('[data-close]').