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Shoaib Khan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,177 PointsI need some help on getting this JS challenge started. Please help!
I need help understanding if I need to edit the function or do I just need to add to it where it says so? Where should I begin?
const languages = ['Python', 'JavaScript', 'PHP', 'Ruby', 'Java', 'C'];
const section = document.getElementsByTagName('section')[0];
// Accepts a language name and returns a wikipedia link
function linkify(language) {
const a = document.createElement('a');
const url = 'https://wikipedia.org/wiki/' + language + '_(programming_language)';
a.href = url;
return a;
}
// Creates and returns a div
function createDiv(language) {
const div = document.createElement('div');
const h2 = document.createElement('h2');
const p = document.createElement('p');
const link = linkify(language);
h2.textContent = language;
p.textContent = 'Information about ' + language;
link.appendChild(p);
div.appendChild(h2);
// Your code below
// end
return div;
}
for (let i = 0; i < languages.length; i += 1) {
let div = createDiv(languages[i]);
section.appendChild(div);
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Programming Languages</title>
<style>
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Programming Languages</h1>
<section></section>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
3 Answers
Shoaib Khan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,177 PointsHi Guys,
Brian Jensen helped me get this right. Here is the correct answer. The link was being stored in the "link" variable with a "p" element and I needed the function to "div.appendChild(link)" to the DOM.
// Your code below
div.appendChild(link);
// end
Thanks again for all your help guys!
Shoaib Khan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,177 PointsI was able to get the links to show up by adding to the for loop, but it still wont accept it as a valid answer. Your thoughts?
for (let i = 0; i < languages.length; i += 1) {
let div = createDiv(languages[i]);
let divLinks = createDiv(linkify(languages[i]));
section.appendChild(div);
section.appendChild(divLinks);
}
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 PointsYou should modify the createDiv() function instead of the loop. Notice the comment:
// Your code below
// end
In the function there is a link variable and the error message provides a hint "Hint: only one line of code needs to be added to complete this challenge"