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JavaScript

Posted by John Haas
John Haas
1,756 Points

Exercise Question

I had a question about hiding this overlay at the very end of this tutorial. I noticed the teacher used the variable "$overlay" to hide the overlay. So he used $overlay.hide(). I was following along and entered $('#overlay').hide() as I'm used to using jquery with divs on the DOM. When I use my way, however, it no longer works. But if I switch it back to using the variable it works. What is the reason for this?

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi John,

It would be more efficient to use the variable $overlay but what you have tried should work also.

I tried it and it works for me.

Did you have your code like this?

$overlay.click(function(){
  //Hide the overlay
  //$overlay.hide();
  $('#overlay').hide();
});