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

Posted by Mike John
Mike John
3,182 Points

Can someone please help me with this code.?

Can someone please help me with this code.? What mistake am I doing.?

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
h2.nextElementSibling(url);

  // end

  return div;
}

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

  section.appendChild(linkify);
}
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>

1 Answer

Olga DC
Olga DC
16,680 Points
Olga DC
Olga DC
16,680 Points

Hi Mike. The code that they give has already appended the h2 to the div. Now it is only asking you to append the link to the div.