error TS2339: JavaScript to Typescript error

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ERROR in src/app/dashboard.component.ts(49,15): error TS2339: Property 'style' does not exist on type 'Element'. src/app/dashboard.component.ts(50,16): error TS2339: Property 'textContent' does not exist on type 'EventTarget'.

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This works as a javascript function, but the above are the errors I get when I try to use this in typescript. I have tried changing var to let and adding . any other suggestions? Thanks.

dashboard.ts

var w = document.getElementById('wrapper');
var button = document.getElementById('randomize');
var image = w.children; // inner elements, your quotes divs

// a function to hide all divs
var hideDivs = function(divs) {
  for (var div of divs) {
    div.style.display = 'none';
  }
}

hideDivs(image); // hide all initially

// on click
button.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
  var rnd = Math.floor(Math.random() * image.length); // get random index
  hideDivs(image); // hide all quotes
  image[rnd].style.display = 'block'; // show random quote
  event.target.textContent = 'Click one more time!'; // set button text. event.target is the button you've clicked
})

dashboard.html

  <div id="wrapper">
  <div class="image" img scr='../../assets/mood.jpg'></div>
  <div class="image" img scr='../../assets/mood.jpg'></div>
  <div class="image" img scr='../../assets/mood.jpg'></div>
  <div class="image" img scr='../../assets/mood.jpg'></div>
  <div class="image" img scr='../../assets/mood.jpg'></div>
</div>
<button id='randomize'>Next</button>

Answer 1

The problem is that target is typed as EventTarget , and an element of image which is a HTMLCollection is typed as Element . Both of the properties you want to access are defined on HTMLElement . The simplest thing you can do is to use a type assertion to tell the compiler that in your case both of these are actually HTMLElement

// on click
button.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
    var rnd = Math.floor(Math.random() * image.length); // get random index
    hideDivs(image); // hide all quotes

    (image[rnd] as HTMLElement).style.display = 'block'; // show random quote
    (event.target as HTMLElement).textContent = 'Click one more time!'; // set button tqext. event.target is the button you've clicked
})

Yo might also want to type hideDivs correctly as well :

// a function to hide all divs
const hideDivs = function (divs : HTMLCollection) {
    for (var div of divs) {
        (div as HTMLElement).style.display = 'none';
    }
}