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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Traversing Elements with querySelector

Tony Brackins
Tony Brackins
28,766 Points
Posted by Tony Brackins
Tony Brackins
28,766 Points

Binding only worked for part.

Help!

Binding only worked for a part.

please see my JSBIN: https://output.jsbin.com/veqoka/

When I click edit task and add it will work, but only for the first set of buttons with "pay bills". All others don't work. :/

Marcus Parsons Tagging you because you are the JS champ! lol

1 Answer

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hey Tony,

I found your problem man! In your bindTaskEvents function, you actually have two different variables for your check box selector. You initialize it as checkbox but then you try to bind the event to checkBox which doesn't exist. All you have to do is rename one to match the other like this:

var bindTaskEvents = function(taskListItem, checkBoxEventHandler){
    console.log("you've binded an event");
        //select taskListItem children
    var checkbox = taskListItem.querySelector("input[type=checkbox]");
    var editButton = taskListItem.querySelector("button.edit");
    var deleteButton = taskListItem.querySelector("button.delete");
        //bind the edit task to edit button
    editButton.onclick = editTask;
    deleteButton.onclick = deleteTask;
        //bind deleteTask to delete button
        //bind checkBoxEventHandler to checkbox
        //changed checkBox to checkbox
    checkbox.onchange = checkBoxEventHandler;
}
Tony Brackins
Tony Brackins
28,766 Points
Tony Brackins
Tony Brackins
28,766 Points

oh wow! thanks! So I entered a capital instead of lowercase. Got it.

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Don't you love it when it's just something simple but you've stared and stared at the code trying to figure out what's wrong? haha You know it's no problem, man.