I have a requirement where I have to pickup the last .div
within a container and apply some business logic to it. The selection of the last .div
has to be dynamic because the user has the option to add/remove .div
elements.
Initially I tried with querySelectorAll
but it did not seem to work. So I decided to change it to getElementsByClassName
and surprisingly it worked with the same logic. Can somebody please help me with the reason for why the remove_div
doesn't work while the second one (remove_div_2
) does?
Note: I am not looking for a fix/solution to the issue because I have already proceeded with the second option. I just want to know the reason why the option with querySelectorAll
doesn't work.
Below is my code:
HTML:
<div id='container'>
<div id='div1' class='div'>This is Div 1</div>
<div id='div2' class='div'>This is Div 2</div>
<div id='div3' class='div'>This is Div 3</div>
</div>
<button type='button' id='append_div'>Append Div</button>
<button type='button' id='remove_div'>Remove Div</button>
<button type='button' id='remove_div_2'>Remove Div 2</button>
JavaScript:
window.onload = function () {
var elementToStyle = document.querySelectorAll("#container .div");
elementToStyle[elementToStyle.length - 1].classList.add('red');
document.getElementById('append_div').onclick = function () {
var divToInsert = document.createElement('div');
divToInsert.id = 'new_div';
divToInsert.className = 'div';
divToInsert.innerHTML = 'This is an appended div';
document.getElementById('container').appendChild(divToInsert);
var elToStyle = document.querySelectorAll("#container .div");
for (i = 0; i < elToStyle.length; i++)
elToStyle[i].classList.remove('red');
elToStyle[elToStyle.length - 1].classList.add('red');
};
document.getElementById('remove_div').onclick = function () {
var elToStyle = document.querySelectorAll("#container .div");
document.getElementById('container').removeChild(elToStyle[elToStyle.length - 1]);
elToStyle[elToStyle.length - 1].classList.add('red');
};
document.getElementById('remove_div_2').onclick = function () {
var elToStyle = document.getElementsByClassName('div');
document.getElementById('container').removeChild(elToStyle[elToStyle.length - 1]);
elToStyle[elToStyle.length - 1].classList.add('red');
};
}
class='div'
because it is mentioned as.div
in the question – Stimulus