getElementsByClassName Help (Uncaught reference error when assigning to variable)

Question

Having some trouble selecting class names with plain \'ol vanilla javascript:

var email = document.getElementsByClassName(\'email\');
var phone = document.getEle         


        

Answer 1

Hint:

document.getElementsByClassName -- Notice that is plural. It returns an nodeList or a null.

First step of debugging should have been a console.log(phone) and see what value it did have.

Without seeing your markup, I have to take some guesses but try:

var email = document.getElementsByClassName('email')[0];
var phone = document.getElementsByClassName('phone')[0];

Edit: Returns a nodeList which is array-like, but not actually an array.