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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM DOM Manipulation

Angelica Islas
Angelica Islas
4,082 Points
Posted by Angelica Islas
Angelica Islas
4,082 Points

I don't know how to create a paragraph element

All I could think of were the paragraph tags

app.js 
var contentDiv = document.getElementById('content');
var newParagraph= <p></p>
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">

        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Clayton Perszyk
MOD
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,723 Points
Clayton Perszyk
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,723 Points

you need to use the createElement method on the document object and pass it a string with the tag name you want to create....

document.createElement(elementType); // pass element type as string

Gergely Bocz
Gergely Bocz
14,244 Points
Gergely Bocz
Gergely Bocz
14,244 Points

I would like to add, that you can find all the info you need in the MDN docs.

In this specific case you need to write the following code:

const newParagraph = document.createElement("p");

Later on you can refer to that specific paragraph element by the name of the variable you assigned it to, in this case: newParagraph.