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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Creating Elements

Posted by MUZ140063 Glen T. Moyo
MUZ140063 Glen T. Moyo
5,257 Points

create a new span element and assign it to newSpan

On line 2 of app.js, create a new span element and assign it to newSpan

app.js 
var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
var newSpan = document.createSpan ("newspan");
MUZ140063 Glen T. Moyo
MUZ140063 Glen T. Moyo
5,257 Points

Never guys i got this

var newSpan = document.createElement('span');

1 Answer

Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

You create the new span element the same way as the div element, with document.createElement(), like this:

var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
var newSpan = document.createElement ("span");