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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu Setting a value

Posted by Laura Cecil
Laura Cecil
Courses Plus Student 17,903 Points

Code won't pass validation but if I've understood the question correctly, it works in Chrome console.

Problem: Value from prompt is not stored in input

js/app.js 
//Show Prompt Window and store value
var fullName = prompt("What is your full name?");

//Select Input with the id of #fullName
$("#fullName").val();
//console.log(fullName);
//Insert value in to full name input
fullName = "fullName";
$("#fullName").val(fullName);
//console.log(fullName);
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<label for="fullName">Full Name</label><input id="fullName" name="fullName" value="" disabled>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>
Lukas Dahlberg
Lukas Dahlberg
53,736 Points

You're doing far too much work. There are only 2 comments, so you should only have 2 new lines of code. 

//Select Input with the id of #fullName

//Insert value in to full name input

For the first, we want to create a variable for full name. For the second, we want to insert the value of the input.

So, when finished, we have:

//Show Prompt Window and store value
var fullName = prompt("What is your full name?");

//Select Input with the id of #fullName
$fullName = $('#fullName');
//Insert value in to full name input
$fullName.val(fullName);

P.S. $("#fullName").val() returns the existing value of an input (among other things). And fullName = "fullName" overwrites the input value of fullName.