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JavaScript Treehouse Club - MASH MASH - JavaScript Fill in Answers and Get Answers Functions

Mahmoud Amin
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Mahmoud Amin
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Posted by Mahmoud Amin
Mahmoud Amin
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A syntax

I don't understand this syntax at all var selector = 'input[name="' + category + '[]"]'; and what does the (input) keyword generally mean

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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This code is building a CSS selector, and input is the HTML element type that the selector will be looking for. The inputs in this case are text boxes on the form.

For example, if you were to make this call: get_answer("pet"), then after your statement above, the variable selector would contain this string: input[name="pet[]"].

If you look in the index.htm file, you will see that there are several input elements that have the name "pet[]" (on lines 43-46). These are the elements that the selector will find.

Make sense now?

Kegan Windle
Kegan Windle
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Kegan Windle
Kegan Windle
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What does a CSS selector do? Is it styling the answers? I thought CSS was just for adding style to the HTML structure.