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Uche Onuekwusi
18,070 PointsHow come the class "remove was written in lowercase " and previously u had been writing in uppercase
javascript and the dom
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there, Uche! I'm going to post the answer here for others in case they have the same question. The question revolves around this video
In it we find the beginning of a code section that looks like this:
if (event.target.tagName == 'BUTTON') {
if(event.target.className == 'remove')
The question then becomes, why the button is in all uppercase and the remove is in all lower case. As you probably know, just about everything is case sensitive. In our CSS we have a class named remove so this part makes sense. But nowhere in our HTML is there anything that says BUTTON.
This is something that is being done by the browser. When you use tagName on an object, the name of the element returned will always be in uppercase. Your browser understands <button> and <BUTTON> are the same things, but when you go out and fetch the name of the element, the name will be returned in uppercase. This is described in the tagName MDN documentation.
Hope this helps!
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherJennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherCan you please post a link to the specific video? It will be much easier to help you this way.