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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Traversing the DOM Getting All Children of a Node with children

Posted by thomas shellberg
thomas shellberg
11,594 Points

A way to abstract the creation of the buttons(more DRY?)

Not a question but thought I'd share how I abstracted the creation of the buttons a bit in this code. I created a method which returned an element that has a class and textContent based on the parameters passed.

addElement = ( type, className, textContent ) => {
  let element = document.createElement(type);
  element.className = className;
  element.textContent = textContent;
  return element;
}

So, inside of a for loop for the children of the UL element, you can add a button with one line:

let removeButton = addElement('button', 'remove', 'X');

Where 'button' is the element type that the addElement method will create, 'remove' is the className added to the button(which our JS is listening for), and 'X' is just the text within the <button></button> element as a visual indicator to remove the element.

Hope that helps someone and always happy to hear feedback if this approach could be improved. :)

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

Excellent concept, and good execution! I would only suggest adding "var" or "const" to the creation of "addElement" instead of relying on the implicit global declaration.

RODRIGO MARTINEZ
RODRIGO MARTINEZ
5,912 Points
RODRIGO MARTINEZ
RODRIGO MARTINEZ
5,912 Points

Aswesome short solution. I understood this one much better than the one explained in the lesson. I'll certainly use this aproach and add it to my toolkit. Thanks a lot for helping out a begginer!

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Just wanted to add that I love this line of thinking. I was watching a YT video last night about the "best way to learn JS'" and this was exactly what was suggested. The creator said it's helpful for you to sit down and right functions to create varying elements on a page. I theorize that we're writing these individual statements over and over because the course is utilizing repetition as a learning technique.

It'd be a cool 'challenge' to analyze a project first and create a dozen or so functions that would be useful in the creation of the main code body, essentially creating a mini library.