Tell us what’s happening: What is the [0] for inside the document.getElementsByClassName(“message”)[0].textContent?? Thank you. Your code so far <script> document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){ document.getElementById('getMessage').onclick = function(){ // Add your code …

I don't understand a syntax in getElementsByClassName

Catalactics July 3, 2020, 1:49am 5

Yes, it’s an ‘array like’ object Collection.

Here’s an article about HTMLCollection:

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