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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Appending Nodes

Posted by jun cheng wong
jun cheng wong
17,021 Points

An alternative way to clear the input after clicking the button [addItemInput.textContent = 'none';]

Can I set the .textContent to none as an alternative to Guil's approach to set the value to ' '?

const toggleList = document.getElementById('togglelist');
const listDiv = document.querySelector('.list');
const descriptionInput = document.querySelector('input.description');
const descriptionP = document.querySelector('p.description');
const descriptionButton = document.querySelector('button.description');
const addItemInput = document.querySelector('input.addItemInput');
const addItemButton = document.querySelector('button.addItemButton');

toggleList.addEventListener('click', () => {
    if(listDiv.style.display == 'none'){
        toggleList.textContent = 'Hide list';
        listDiv.style.display = 'block';
    } else {
        toggleList.textContent = 'Show list';
        listDiv.style.display = 'none';
    }
});

descriptionButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
    descriptionP.innerHTML = descriptionInput.value + ':';      
});

addItemButton.addEventListener('click', () => {

    let ul = document.getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];
  let li = document.createElement('li');
    li.textContent = addItemInput.value;
    ul.appendChild(li);
    addItemInput.textContent = 'none';

                                                             });

1 Answer

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,425 Points
Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,425 Points

Hi Cheng!

Unfortunately, not that would not work.

This code:

listDiv.style.display = 'none';

will hide the listDoc (and completely remove it from the DOM flow)

(because display is a CSS style property)

however, this code:

addItemInput.textContent = 'none';

would not hide addItemInput - it would change its text to 'none'.

The way to clear it is to set the textContent to an empty string, such as '' or "".

More info:

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_display.asp

https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_node_textcontent.asp

I hope that helps.

Stay safe and happy coding!