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    copied!<p>I am trying to make an 'opening hours' table that highlights the current day for the user.</p> <p>HTML:</p> <pre><code> &lt;div id="Monday"&gt; &lt;h2&gt; Mon&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;8am-9pm&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="Tuesday"&gt; &lt;h2&gt; Tue&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;8am-9pm&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="Wednesday"&gt; &lt;h2&gt; Wed&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;8am-9pm&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="Thursday"&gt; &lt;h2&gt; Thu&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;8am-9pm&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="Friday"&gt; &lt;h2&gt; Fri&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;8am-9pm&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="Saturday"&gt; &lt;h2&gt; Sat&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;8am-9pm&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="Sunday"&gt; &lt;h2&gt; Sun&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3&gt;8am-9pm&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>jQuery/Javascript/Idon'tevenknowanymore:</p> <pre><code>var d=newDate(); var day=d.getDay(); if (day == 1) { document.getElementById('Monday').style.color='#DB35B0' } else if (day == 2) { document.getElementById('Tuesday').style.color='#DB35B0' } else if (day == 3) { document.getElementById('Wednesday').style.color='#DB35B0' } else if (day == 4) { document.getElementById('Thursday').style.color='#DB35B0' } else if (day == 5) { document.getElementById('Friday').style.color='#DB35B0' } else if (day == 6) { document.getElementById('Saturday').style.color='#DB35B0' } else if (day == 0) { document.getElementById('Sunday').style.color='#DB35B0' } </code></pre> <p>The trouble is that if I was going to change the color in the css I would use: </p> <pre><code> #Friday h3 {color:#DB35B0;} </code></pre> <p>which doesn't seem to work in the Javascript like this:</p> <pre><code> else if (day == 5) { document.getElementById('Friday h3').style.color='#DB35B0' } </code></pre> <p>I also tried:</p> <pre><code> else if (day == 5) { document.getElementById('Friday').children.style.color='#DB35B0' } </code></pre> <p>But that did nothing.</p> <p>So what do I do?</p> <p>Is it possible to target the children of the divs and change their color?</p>
 

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