Those "Why am I in this business" moments :)

I couldn't let this moment pass without sharing this.

I'm doing the new practice session for Selecting DOM elements. Easy enough I thought but we can never have enough practice and I thoroughly approve of them and love doing them.

The first task in the practice was to simply select an element by its ID. No problem. In the bag.

The second one was to select elements using a method that grabs a collection of elements. While I didn't think in those terms... I got the idea... I'm aware of the methods to use.

It was a while before I thought to use a loop to iterate through the entire collection though. But that's not the thing. That's what the practice is for.

But do you know what the real killer was? I must have lost an hour of my time trying to figure out what I had done wrong here.

let cards = document.getElementsByClassName('.card');

for (let i=0; i<cards.length; i +=1) {
  cards[i].style.backgroundColor = 'seashell';
}

Absolutely flawless, right? I mean.. the console didn't pick anything up anything. Yet when I tried and tried and tried little different bits of code and tried and tried to rack my brains as to why the background colour didn't change to seashell like in the video... I couldn't it out. Maybe my browser just had a bug. I didn't try seashell at first, so I just thought... maybe... I was using a colour the browser didn't support for JavaScrpt... but that didn't ring true.

And then, at last, it hit me....

I was using .card as the reference, with a method that returns class names. It was really painful when I did. A whole hour.

As a Neurodiverse person, it's moments like these that make me question my sanity. I mean, I could on another day have worked it out on the spot... but sometimes the answer just escapes me because my brain is single minded. It will only consider what is fresh in my memory and the grey matter doesn't switch on.

But it can be the same for neuro-typical people tool. Has anyone else had those moments when you wonder how you got into the tech business?