Checkbox and buttons do not work on newly added tasks

if you do not provide your code, telling you where you went wrong is a shot in the dark

add your code here by enclosing it 3 back ticks like so

if I would have to guess, you dont bind the events for the newly created tasks correctly. I had a similar problem when i did mine so thats how i know :P

no problem, glad I could help

lance, you dont seem to be calling the bindTaskEvents method inside your addTask method

which means that your checkbox and buttons are not binded with the event handlers

Not sure what you mean by "3 back ticks," but here is the code I created for this lesson. (Sorry, I can't figure out how to make it display properly. It works on some lines but not others.)

//Each element must be modified.
checkBox.type = "checkbox";
editInput.type = "text";
editButton.innerText = "Edit";
editButton.className = "edit";
deleteButton.innerText = "Delete";
deleteButton.className = "delete";
label.innerText = taskString;

Here is the code from previous lessons that deals with adding new tasks:

//ADD NEW TASK var addTask = function() { console.log("Add task..."); //Create a new list item with the text from #new-task: var listItem = createNewTaskElement(taskInput.value);

    //Append listItem to incompleteTasksHolder.
    incompleteTasksHolder.appendChild(listItem);

}

Here is the stuff related to deleting tasks:

//DELETE EXISTING TASK var deleteTask = function() { console.log("Delete task..."); var listItem = this.parentNode; var ul = listItem.parentNode;

//Remove parent list item from the ul.
ul.removeChild(listItem);

}

Here is the code that deals with binding to the completed and incomplete lists:

//MARK TASK AS COMPLETE var taskCompleted = function() { console.log("Task complete..."); //Append task list item to #completed-tasks. var listItem = this.parentNode; completedTasksHolder.appendChild(listItem); bindTaskEvents(listItem, taskIncomplete);
}

//MARK TASK AS INCOMPLETE var taskIncomplete = function() { console.log("Task incomplete..."); //Append task list item to #incomplete-tasks. var listItem = this.parentNode; incompleteTasksHolder.appendChild(listItem); bindTaskEvents(listItem, taskCompleted);
}

var bindTaskEvents = function(taskListItem, checkBoxEventHandler) { console.log("Bind list item events"); //Select taskListItem's children. var checkBox = taskListItem.querySelector("input[type=checkbox]"); var editButton = taskListItem.querySelector("button.edit"); var deleteButton = taskListItem.querySelector("button.delete");

    //Bind editTask to edit button.
    editButton.onclick = editTask;

    //Bind deleteTask to delete button.
    deleteButton.onclick = deleteTask;

    //Bind checkBoxEventHandler to checkbox.
    checkBox.onchange = checkBoxEventHandler;

}

sorry your code is difficult to read, take a look at the markdown cheatsheet bellow

basically you need to put your code inside back ticks

so you'd get

<script>
 function() {
   example;
}

</script>

Having the same issue and just can't figure it out. Any help would be much appreciated!

'''javascript

////Problem: User interaction doesn't provide desire results //Solution: Add interactivity so the user can manage daily tasks

var taskInput = document.getElementById("new-task"); //new-task var addButton = document.getElementsByTagName("button")[0]; //first button var incompleteTasksHolder = document.getElementById("incomplete-tasks"); //incomplete-tasks var completedTasksHolder = document.getElementById("completed-tasks"); //completed-tasks

//New Task list Item var createNewTaskElement = function(taskString) { //Create List Item var listItem = document.createElement("li");

//input (checkbox) var checkBox = document.createElement("input"); // checkbox //label var label = document.createElement("label"); //input (text) var editInput = document.createElement("input"); // text //button.edit var editButton = document.createElement("button"); //button.delete var deleteButton = document.createElement("delete");

//Each element needs modifying

checkBox.type = "checkbox"; editInput.type = "text";

editButton.innerText = "Edit"; editButton.className = "edit"; deleteButton.innerText = "Delete"; deleteButton.className = "delete";

label.innerText = taskString;

//Each element needs appending listItem.appendChild(checkBox); listItem.appendChild(label); listItem.appendChild(editInput); listItem.appendChild(editButton); listItem.appendChild(deleteButton);

return listItem; }

//Add a new task var addTask = function() { console.log("Add task..."); //Create a new list item with the text from #new-task: var listItem = createNewTaskElement(taskInput.value); //Append listItem to incompleteTasksHolder incompleteTasksHolder.appendChild(listItem); bindtaskEvents(listItem, taskCompleted); }

//Edit an existing task var editTask = function() { console.log("Edit task..."); //When the edit button is pressed //If the class of the parent is .editMode //Switch from .editMode //label text because the input's value //else //Sitch to .editMode //Input value becomes the label's text

//Toddle.editMode on the parent

}

//Delete an exisiting task var deleteTask = function() { console.log("Delete task..."); var listItem = this.parentNode; var ul = listItem.parentNode;

//Remove the parent list item from the ul ul.removeChild(listItem); }

//Mark a task as complete var taskCompleted = function(){ console.log("Task compelte..."); //Append the task list item to the #completed-tasks var listItem = this.parentNode completedTasksHolder.appendChild(listItem); bindtaskEvents(listItem, taskIncomplete); }

//Mark a task as incomplete var taskIncomplete = function() { console.log("Task incomplete..."); //Append the task list item to the #incomplet-tasks var listItem = this.parentNode incompletedTasksHolder.appendChild(listItem); bindtaskEvents(listItem, taskCompleted); }

var bindtaskEvents = function(taskListItem, checkboxEventHandler) { console.log("Bind list item events");
//select taskListItem's children var checkBox = taskListItem.querySelector("input[type=checkbox]"); var editButton = taskListItem.querySelector("button.edit"); var deleteButton = taskListItem.querySelector("button.delete");

//bind edittask to edit button
editButton.onclick = editTask;
//bind deleteTask to delete button
deleteButton.onclick = deleteTask;
//bind checkBoxEventHandler to checkbox
checkBox.onchange = checkboxEventHandler;

}

//Set the click handler to the addTask function addButton.onclick = addTask;

//cycle over incompleteTasksHolder ul list items for(var i = 0; i < incompleteTasksHolder.children.length; i++) { //bind each events to list item's children (taskCompleted) bindtaskEvents(incompleteTasksHolder.children[i], taskCompleted); }

//cycle over completeTasksHolder ul list items for(var i = 0; i < completedTasksHolder.children.length; i++) {
//bind each events to list item's children (taskIncomplete) bindtaskEvents(completedTasksHolder.children[i], taskIncomplete); }

'''

Okay, I suspected it was something to do with the binding, but I couldn't figure it out beyond that. I added the bindTaskEvents to the addTask function, and it seems to work now. I must have missed writing that in the code somehow in the original lesson.

Thanks so much, Michalis.