Property 'style' does not exist on type 'Element'

[itayod]

TypeScript Version: ~2.3.3

Code

  let floorElements = document.getElementsByClassName("floor");
    for(var i in floorElements) {
      floorElements[i].style.height = AppConstants.FLOOR_SIZE_IN_PX + 'px';
    }

Expected behavior:
Not display an error.
Actual behavior:
I get this error : Property 'style' does not exist on type 'Element'

[ThomasdenH]

You need to cast the Element to a HTMLElement, which has got the style property. The reason is that it could also be another type of element that hasn't got the style property.

[kitsonk]

The simplest way is to cast the return of getElementsByClassName:

let floorElements = document.getElementsByClassName("floor") as HTMLCollectionOf<HTMLElement>;

Again though, these sorts of general questions should be being asked in Gitter or on StackOverflow.

[itayod]

Ok thanks.

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[Rep1ay]

@kitsonk it dosn't work with css style...I getting error "Property 'style' does not exist on type 'HTMLCollectionOf'."

[ThomasdenH]

The function returns a collection of elements, so to access their style you should loop over the elements or index them directly.

[chadupton]

@Rep1ay

If you only have one element with that classname, try this:

let drawingBuffer:HTMLElement = document.getElementsByClassName("drawingBuffer")[0] as HTMLElement;

[CR7LOVE]

@chadupton It works.Thank you!

[MrBugatti]

Syntactically best way for a single element (below). You don't need to identity the first element within array if it's the only element.

const node = document.querySelector(element) as HTMLElement;

[Umaid1]

@Rep1ay

If you only have one element with that classname, try this:

let drawingBuffer:HTMLElement = document.getElementsByClassName("drawingBuffer")[0] as HTMLElement;

Thanks it worked!

[titusfx]

At current date you can do

const node = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(element);

Which is cleaner than use as operator