How to correctly iterate through getElementsByClassName

According to MDN, the way to retrieve an item from a NodeList is:

nodeItem = nodeList.item(index)

Thus:

var slides = document.getElementsByClassName("slide");
for (var i = 0; i < slides.length; i++) {
   Distribute(slides.item(i));
}

I haven't tried this myself (the normal for loop has always worked for me), but give it a shot.

If you use the new querySelectorAll you can call forEach directly.

document.querySelectorAll('.edit').forEach(function(button) {
    // Now do something with my button
});

Per the comment below. nodeLists do not have a forEach function.

If using this with babel you can add Array.from and it will convert non node lists to a forEach array. Array.from does not work natively in browsers below and including IE 11.

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.edit')).forEach(function(button) {
    // Now do something with my button
});

At our meetup last night I discovered another way to handle node lists not having forEach

[...document.querySelectorAll('.edit')].forEach(function(button) {
    // Now do something with my button
});

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