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JavaScript DOM Scripting By Example Improving the Application Code Fix Function that Should be Creating Links

yousif alyousif
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Posted by yousif alyousif
yousif alyousif
2,322 Points

can some one please give me some hint?

I am trying to solve this challenge but did not come up with a way to solve it. can any one please give me a hint or guide me to solve it? the challenge task is: This code should create a sequence of div elements that each hold a headline above and a link below. Currently, only the headlines display, and the links do not. Can you figure out how to fix this to make the links display under each headline?

app.js 
const languages = ['Python', 'JavaScript', 'PHP', 'Ruby', 'Java', 'C'];
const section = document.getElementsByTagName('section')[0];

// Accepts a language name and returns a wikipedia link
function linkify(language) {
  const a = document.createElement('a');
  const url = 'https://wikipedia.org/wiki/' + language + '_(programming_language)';
  a.href = url;
  return a;
}

// Creates and returns a div
function createDiv(language) {
  const div = document.createElement('div');
  const h2 = document.createElement('h2');
  const p = document.createElement('p');
  const link = linkify(language);

  h2.textContent = language;
  p.textContent = 'Information about ' + language;
  link.appendChild(p);

  div.appendChild(h2);

  // Your code below


  // end

  return div;
}

for (let i = 0; i < languages.length; i += 1) {
  let div = createDiv(languages[i]);

  section.appendChild(div);
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Programming Languages</title>
  <style>
    body {
      font-family: sans-serif;
    }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Programming Languages</h1>
  <section></section>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

4 Answers

Alexandra Barnett
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Alexandra Barnett
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Alexandra Barnett
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Hi Yousif! The challenge wants you to add the link variable to the div, but below the h2 element. There has been a place marked in the code below the h2 element (that has already been added: div.appendChild(h2)) - it's very very similar to that line of code :)

div.appendChild(h2);

  // Your code below


  // end

I hope that helps you, if you need any more guidance, just ask!

yousif alyousif
yousif alyousif
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yousif alyousif
yousif alyousif
2,322 Points

thanks a lot for your time and explanation

Vassil Kurktcheiv
Vassil Kurktcheiv
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Vassil Kurktcheiv
Vassil Kurktcheiv
3,248 Points

Nice, thanks for not giving the answer as well :)

Eden Gomez
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Eden Gomez
Eden Gomez
22,565 Points

please im lost, can you guys gime me another hint??

John Collins
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const languages = ['Python', 'JavaScript', 'PHP', 'Ruby', 'Java', 'C'];
const section = document.getElementsByTagName('section')[0];

// Accepts a language name and returns a wikipedia link
function linkify(language) {
  const a = document.createElement('a');
  const url = 'https://wikipedia.org/wiki/' + language + '_(programming_language)';
  a.href = url;
  return a;
}

// Creates and returns a div
function createDiv(language) {
  const div = document.createElement('div');
  const h2 = document.createElement('h2');
  const p = document.createElement('p');
  const link = linkify(language);

  h2.textContent = language;
  p.textContent = 'Information about ' + language;
  link.appendChild(p);

  div.appendChild(h2);

  // Your code below
     div.appendChild(link);

  // end

  return div;
}

for (let i = 0; i < languages.length; i += 1) {
  let div = createDiv(languages[i]);

  section.appendChild(div);

}