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Posted by EKATERINA L
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EKATERINA L
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 12,563 Points

Cannot return the state back to initial

Hello everyone! When I play one game and then click start game again, I cannot clear my ul with previous random phrase letter from the old game and then to add new li’s with letters created with new phrase. Any advice will be appreciated) what i need is to have the view of any new try the same as initial and user should be able to play again. Thank you! https://github.com/k-petite/project-8

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points

Your loop is attempting to index through a list and alter it at the same time, which will cause elements to be skipped over.

But there is a much easier way to clear an element, simply set its textContent property to an empty string:

  ul.textContent = "";    //removes all letters created in the previous game
EKATERINA L
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
EKATERINA L
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 12,563 Points

Thank you, Steven! It worked)