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JavaScript

EventListener

Hello, Could you tell me why this code is not working. Actually it works it changes the content of the li but only for like 000.1 sec and then it gets back to normal.

const input = document.querySelector('#input'); // selects input field
const submit = document.querySelector('#submit'); // selects submit button
let liz = document.querySelector('li');


submit.addEventListener('click', () => {
  liz.textContet = 'sadasdasd';
});

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points

You didn't show the HTML part of the code, but I'm guessing you have a form on it, and the default action of a form is to reload the page when you submit.

You can stop this with the "preventDefault" method or by triggering the event with a control that is not also associated with the submit action.