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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge Solution

Posted by Michael Cronk
Michael Cronk
8,969 Points

How come you don't use the 'document.querySelector('main').innerHTML' to write to the webpage?

How come you didn't use the 'document.querySelector('main').innerHTML' to write to the webpage?

Instead he used 'main.innerHTML' in his solution, which didn't work for me when I tried to use it in my solution.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,695 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,695 Points

It works in the video because on a previous line (line 11) "main" was declared as:

const main = document.querySelector("main");
Michael Cronk
Michael Cronk
8,969 Points

Oh! I did not see that! Thank you.