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JavaScript Object-Oriented JavaScript (2015) Practice Project User Interface Code

Posted by Nadav Reis
Nadav Reis
5,561 Points

Assigning a value to guess.

I saw this question come up within a different question. Since this was a followup there, I am making it it's own question.

I am just trying to see if I understand how a value is assigned to the guess variable, which is passed to the guessHandler. So I think this is how it is explained. Please correct me if this is not correct:

When the choice "George Washington" is what is displayed in #choice0, it is actually populated with the value "George Washington", since that is the innerHTML? So this becomes the value of the guess that is passed into the guessHandler? Please clarify if that is what is happening.

Thank you so much!

Charles Wanjohi
Charles Wanjohi
9,235 Points
Charles Wanjohi
Charles Wanjohi
9,235 Points

Yeah you are right ....and since its a text, it would be preferable to use textContent for innerHTML i.e.

let myAnswer =document.getElementById('choice0').textContent;
guessHandler(answer);

hope this answers your question

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Nadav Reis
Nadav Reis
5,561 Points
Nadav Reis
Nadav Reis
5,561 Points

Thanks so much!