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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Adding New Attribute Values with attr()

Posted by Andrew Glibbery
Andrew Glibbery
10,360 Points

How do i start the code challenge on adding attributes with variables?

Here is my code

var target;

$(example).attr(target, "_blank");  

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
  <title>Links Page</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Links</h1>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://google.com" class="external">Google</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://yahoo.com" class="external">Yahoo</a></li>
  </ul>
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
  <script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>

I honestly don't understand what is happening here. I re watched the videos several times and I do not know what it wants me to do.

huckleberry
huckleberry
14,636 Points
huckleberry
huckleberry
14,636 Points

Fixed up your code formatting there. Please take a look so you see how you should go about formatting your code in the future :)

Cheers,

Huck - :sunglasses:

1 Answer

Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 71,349 Points

Hi Andrew, You have most of it correct except for selecting the external class at the beginning and using quotes around it. Also add quotes around target, declaring target as a variable is not needed as that is the attribute name.

$(".external").attr("target","_blank");
Andrew Glibbery
Andrew Glibbery
10,360 Points

Ahhh... I see. Thank you.