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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Adding New Attribute Values with attr()

Jason Brown
Jason Brown
9,626 Points
Posted by Jason Brown
Jason Brown
9,626 Points

I guess I don't understand what they're asking for ?

I followed the example from the previous lesson. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong? I feel like I misunderstood the question, maybe? Thanks.

js/app.js 
$(".external li").click(function(event) {
  event.preventDefault();
  var target = $(this).attr("target");
  $links.attr("_blank", target)
});
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
  <title>Links Page</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Links</h1>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://google.com" class="external">Google</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://yahoo.com" class="external">Yahoo</a></li>
  </ul>
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
  <script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>
Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points
Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points

Where is $links declared and assigned?

2 Answers

Alexander La Bianca
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 Points

Jason, According to the question asked by the challenge you need to add the attribute 'target' to each link with class="external". Using jQuery only I would use the $('selector').each(function(){}); function and then add the target attribute to each element. Pseudo code could look like this: GET each ".external" $"this external".attr("target", "_blank");

Read for .each(): http://api.jquery.com/each/ Read for .attr(): http://api.jquery.com/attr/

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points

You may have linked to the wrong challenge.

The challenge I see following the "view challenge" button above says Challenge Task 1 of 1 Using jQuery only, add to all links with the class "external", the target attribute with the value of "_blank".

But your code shows the creation of a click event handler. Either the link is pointing to the wrong challenge, or your code is doing things that are not related to the challenge.