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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Appending and Removing Elements

Yohan Aton
Yohan Aton
1,738 Points
Posted by Yohan Aton
Yohan Aton
1,738 Points

I believe I'm missing something obvious..

Here is the code I've added below.

  • If you have the answer, I'd be grateful to see it so I can reverse engineer / understand better what is being looked for.

Thank You!!!

var body = document.body;
var newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
var pleaseEnableParagraph = document.querySelector("#please_enable");

//Remove "Please Enable JavaScript" paragraph

pleaseEnableParagraph.removeChild("p");

//Append new paragaph to document
Adam Pengh
Adam Pengh
29,881 Points
Adam Pengh
Adam Pengh
29,881 Points

Try this:

var body = document.body;
var newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
var pleaseEnableParagraph = document.querySelector("#please_enable");

//Remove "Please Enable JavaScript" paragraph
body.removeChild(pleaseEnableParagraph);

2 Answers

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

The challenge is asking that you remove #please_enable from the body. To do that you would do the following

var body = document.body;
var newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
var pleaseEnableParagraph = document.querySelector("#please_enable");

//Remove "Please Enable JavaScript" paragraph
body.removeChild(pleaseEnableParagraph);

I hope this helps.