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Piotr Manczak
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Piotr Manczak
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element.remove();

Wouldn't it be easier to do: const extra = document.querySelector(".extra"); extra.remove();

This way, selected node would be removed from the DOM without engaging parent element, as opposed to parent.removeChild(child) method. It worked in my solution. Have I used it somehow incorrectly?

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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Your code is totally valid! Nice find!

I'm not sure what course you're in, is it navigating the DOM? If so, then they probably went this route to show a way of doing so with DOM traversal.