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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM DOM Manipulation

Am I doing it correctly?

I’m trying to complete this. Is my solution correct? I also don’t understand the instructions that much. Thanks!

app.js
var contentDiv = document.getElementById('content');
var newParagraph = document.getElementsByTagName('p');
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <p>paragraph<p>
        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jesús Armenta
Jesús Armenta
13,505 Points

Yeah, what is asking you is to create a new element like this: document.createElement('p') instead of search for one