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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal Adding New Elements to the DOM

Posted by Riley O'Neil
Riley O'Neil
2,560 Points

i don't know what i'm doing wrong here

i know i need to add something, but i have absolutely no clue what

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Student List</h2>

    <ul class="student-list">
        <li>James McAvoy</li>
        <li>Alena Holligan</li>
        <li>Wade Christensen</li>
        <li>Matt Krzyzynski</li>
    </ul>

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
$('.student.list').text('<li>Sam Smith</li>');

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

It's not clear which task you are doing, but adding the element to the list doesn't happen until task 2.

Task 1 has you create a new element and call it $newStudent, but there's no variable by that name here. Remember with each step to add to the code from previous step(s) and not replace it.