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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Getting and Setting Text with textContent and innerHTML

Zach Sienkiewicz
Zach Sienkiewicz
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Posted by Zach Sienkiewicz
Zach Sienkiewicz
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Class name

Why do you need a class name for the button?

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Joseph Lander
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TLDR: I don't think they had to OR they forgot to incorporate it OR they use it in later videos

I opened the workspace and see that there isn't a solitary .description selector in the CSS. The button tag has been styled separately and there is no button.description use. If you'd like to confirm this for yourself, I added a button element without the class name to the HTML and it styles the same as when it is included.

There could still have been other reasons they would want to add it here:

  • If there were more buttons than there are in the example, this would allow them to use button.description.
  • They could have styled the button with generic styles, then add more specific styles on top of those.
  • Equally, they could have used it for a more specific js selector.

As far as I see, the short answer, I think you spotted - it wasn't doing anything.

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In fact, they do use this in a later video "Styling Elements" at 9:09 when they add another button and it adds a bug to their new code.

I think this highlights that it's worth adding classes to your elements 1) so that you can refer back to them later and 2) so that they are more readable in the HTML as well.