I'm trying to set up a javascript function that will take a down arrow image and swap it with an up arrow image when clicked. It worked when the image had an id, but because I have a couple menu items that uses the arrow image, I wanted to try to get it to work as a class name or just regular name, but I can't get the function to change the source of the image when it's not an id. Can anyone help? Here is my current HTML markup:
<div class="header__links hide-for-mobile" >
<a id="subMenu" href="#">Features <img class="downArrow" src="/assets/images/icon-arrow-down.svg"></a>
<a href="#">Company</a>
<a href="#">Careers</a>
<a href="#">About</a>
</div>
And here is my JS
const subMenu = document.querySelector('#subMenu');
subMenu.addEventListener('click', function() {
if(subMenu.classList.contains('subOpen')) {
subMenu.classList.remove('subOpen');
document.getElementsByClassName('downArrow').src="/assets/images/icon-arrow-down.svg";
}
else {
subMenu.classList.add('subOpen');
document.getElementsByClassName('downArrow').src="/assets/images/icon-arrow-up.svg";
}
})
Right now since your markup only contains a single element with the downArrow class you could update your code to:
const subMenu = document.querySelector('#subMenu');
subMenu.addEventListener('click', function() {
if(subMenu.classList.contains('subOpen')) {
subMenu.classList.remove('subOpen');
document.getElementsByClassName('downArrow')[0].src="/assets/images/icon-arrow-down.svg";
}
else {
subMenu.classList.add('subOpen');
document.getElementsByClassName('downArrow')[0].src="/assets/images/icon-arrow-up.svg";
}
})
But a better way to do this would be to loop through the results of the getELementsByClassName method. You could do that with something like:
const subMenu = document.querySelector('#subMenu');
subMenu.addEventListener('click', function() {
if(subMenu.classList.contains('subOpen')) {
subMenu.classList.remove('subOpen');
Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("downArrow")).forEach(
function(element, index, array) {
element.src="/assets/images/icon-arrow-down.svg";
}
);
}
else {
subMenu.classList.add('subOpen');
Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("downArrow")).forEach(
function(element, index, array) {
element.src="/assets/images/icon-arrow-up.svg";
}
);
}
})