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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal Adding New Elements to the DOM

Posted by Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins
10,080 Points

Brain fart! Need serious help!!!!!!

Tried everything, what on earth am I missing??? So frustrated!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Student List</h2>

    <ul class="student-list">
        <li>James McAvoy</li>
        <li>Alena Holligan</li>
        <li>Wade Christensen</li>
        <li>Matt Krzyzynski</li>
    </ul>

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
//var = $newStudent;
const $newStudent = $('<li>Sam Smith</li>')
$('.student-list').append("$newStudent");
//$('.student-list').append($newStudent);
//var $newStudent = $("<li>Sam Smith</li>").append(".student-list");
//$('.student-list').append($newStudent);
var $newStudent $('.student-list').append('<li>Sam Smith</li>');
Adam Doe
Adam Doe
30,840 Points
Adam Doe
Adam Doe
30,840 Points

Remove the quotes where you are appending $newStudent.

1 Answer

scribbles
scribbles
21,173 Points
scribbles
scribbles
21,173 Points

As Adam mentioned, you're passing in a string to the append method. jQuery will see that as the literal string of "$newStudent" instead of as a variable.

Just remove the quotes:

const $newStudent = $('<li>Sam Smith</li>')
$('.student-list').append($newStudent);

and you're good.