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Khumoyunmirzo Nosirov
8,689 PointsI couldn't find what is wrong with this code
Select the <input> element with the ID linkName and store its value in the variable inputValue. (For a refresher on getting the value of a text input, watch this video from the previous section.)
var inputValue = document.getElementById('linkName');
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>DOM Manipulation</title>
</head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
<body>
<div id="content">
<label>Link Name:</label>
<input type="text" id="linkName">
<a id="link" href="https://teamtreehouse.com"></a>
</div>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Antony .
2,824 PointsThe challenge asks you to select the linkName ID and store it in the inputValue variable. Then it asks you to get the value of the ID.
In this example we see that getting the ID, linkName would look like this:
var inputValue = document.getElementById('linkName');
But unfortunately this doesn't return the value inside the tag. This would return something like this:
<p id="linkName"> Hi, I'm a P tag</p>
To get the value inside the tag, you would need to use the value property. So your answer should look like this:
var inputValue = document.getElementById('linkName').value;
martinjones1
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 44,819 PointsNearly there, you have the element, so now you just need to get the "value" of it...