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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Appending and Removing Elements

Wylie Stilwell
Wylie Stilwell
8,785 Points
Posted by Wylie Stilwell
Wylie Stilwell
8,785 Points

Bummer! There was an error with your code: NOT_FOUND_ERR: DOM Exception 8: An attempt was made to reference a Node in a

Is this a bug, I looked up my answer and people in the forum say it's right, but I'm getting an error:

Bummer! There was an error with your code: NOT_FOUND_ERR: DOM Exception 8: An attempt was made to reference a Node in a context where it does not exist.

app.js 
var body = document.body;
var newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
var pleaseEnableParagraph = document.querySelector("#please_enable");

//Remove "Please Enable JavaScript" paragraph
body.removeChild("pleaseEnableParagraph");


//Append new paragaph to document
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <p id="please_enable">Please Enable JavaScript</p>

    <script src="app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Wylie;

Try it without the quotes around pleaseEnableParagraph.

Happy coding,

Ken