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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perfect

John Girard
John Girard
6,349 Points
Posted by John Girard
John Girard
6,349 Points

adds a blank item with edit/delete buttons but no text after typing in the add item box.

snapshot of workspace: https://w.trhou.se/ullwxrvvbo

won't work in chrome or firefox

1 Answer

Kris Phelps
Kris Phelps
7,609 Points
Kris Phelps
Kris Phelps
7,609 Points

I see in your code where you pass the value of the taskInput element to your createNewTaskElement function:

var listItem = createNewTaskElement(taskInput.value);

But I don't see where taskString is referenced in that function:

//New Task List Item
var createNewTaskElement = function(taskString) {
  //Create List Item
  var listItem = document.createElement("li");

//input checkbox
  var checkBox = document.createElement("input"); //checkbox

  //label
  var label = document.createElement("label");

  //input (text)
  var editInput = document.createElement("input"); //text

  //button.edit
  var editButton = document.createElement("button");

  //button.deletes
  var deleteButton = document.createElement("button");

  //Each elements needs modifying
  checkBox.type = "checkbox";
  editInput.type = "text";

  editButton.textContent = "Edit";
  editButton.className = "edit";
  deleteButton.textContent = "Delete";
  deleteButton.className = "delete";


  //Each element needs appending
  listItem.appendChild(checkBox);
  listItem.appendChild(label);
  listItem.appendChild(editInput);
  listItem.appendChild(editButton);
  listItem.appendChild(deleteButton);


  return listItem;
}

I hope this helps :-)