I am trying to learn how to use for loop to create and assign variables. I have a list of items gathered using:
document.getElementsByClassName("category-item-link")
it returns:
[a.category-item-link, a.category-item-link, a.category-item-link, a.category-item-link, a.category-item-link, a.category-item-link]
My goal is to assign each item to a variable called link[0] - link[5] using for loop.
Since it already returns a collection of elements, you can just do this (I converted link into an array so you can see just the elements):
var link = [...document.getElementsByClassName("category-item-link")];
console.log(link);<a class="category-item-link">Link</a>
<a class="category-item-link">Link</a>
<a class="category-item-link">Link</a>
<a class="category-item-link">Link</a>
<a class="category-item-link">Link</a>
<a class="category-item-link">Link</a>getElementsByClassName returns an object with the collection of elements. So you can already access each item to a variable called link[0] - link[5] by this:
const link = document.getElementsByClassName("category-item-link")
However, for practicing for loop, you may do this:
const objs = document.getElementsByClassName("category-item-link")
const link = []
for (let i = 0; i < objs.length; i++) {
link[i] = objs[i]
}
or like this:
const objs = document.getElementsByClassName("category-item-link")
const link = []
for (const obj of objs) {
link.push(obj)
}
getElementsByClassNamealready returns a collection of elements.var link = document.getElementsByClassName("category-item-link")?