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Nick Batlle
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 12,915 PointsI do not understand what this task is asking me to do, specifically what do they mean by add a class of highlight?
any help is appreciated!
const list = document.getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];
list.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
if (e.target.tagName == 'BUTTON') {
}
});
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript and the DOM</title>
</head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
<body>
<section>
<h1>Making a Webpage Interactive</h1>
<p>Things to Learn</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Element Selection</p><button>Highlight</button></li>
<li><p>Events</p><button>Highlight</button></li>
<li><p>Event Listening</p><button>Highlight</button></li>
<li><p>DOM Traversal</p><button>Highlight</button></li>
</ul>
</section>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
4 Answers
Aaron Price
5,974 Pointsthis worked for me
e.target.previousElementSibling.className = "highlight"
Matthew Harris
2,207 PointsI would try e.target.className = 'highlight';
This adds "class = highlight" to each of those buttons, hopefully, I am correct.
Owa Aquino
19,277 PointsHi Nick,
The problem stating that you should add a class of "highlight" on the paragraph <p> once the button was clicked. The "highlight" class can be added by the JS function classList.add('hightlight).
Hope this help.
Nick Batlle
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 12,915 PointsThanks guys, that was helpful. Aaron's solution worked for me too