Hi, guys! The question is: Select the submit button by its class and save it to a variable called $submit. Then use the appropriate jQuery method to disable the button by adding a disabled attribute to it. This is what I've done: javascript const $submit = $('.submit-btn'); $submit.attr('disabled', 'true'); ...But the code challenge says: Bummer! Did you supply the arguments "'disabled', true" to the "attr" method call on the variable named "$submit"? Isn't that exactly what I've done?

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Posted March 5, 2018 9:27am by

I think this challenge is faulty?

Hi, guys! The question is:

Select the submit button by its class and save it to a variable called `$submit`. Then use the appropriate jQuery method to disable the button by adding a `disabled` attribute to it.

This is what I've done:

const $submit = $('.submit-btn');
$submit.attr('disabled', 'true');

...But the code challenge says:

Bummer! Did you supply the arguments "'disabled', true" to the "attr" method call on the variable named "$submit"?

Isn't that exactly what I've done?

2 Answers

March 5, 2018 12:05pm

Take true out of quotes and it should work.

March 5, 2018 6:27pm

But it shouldn't matter, should it?

March 5, 2018 9:50pm

If the true is in quotes then it will be a string instead of a boolean. I believe you have to insert a truth value. It is similar to is you have the following.

var name = "john"
print ("name")

It will not print john because name is in quotations. So when you put true in quotations you are passing in a string instead of setting disabled to true.

March 6, 2018 8:46am

Still... My answer worked when I did it in Workspaces, so it shouldn't be marked wrong.

October 11, 2018 11:50am

Remove the ' ' on 'true'

const $submit = $('.submit-btn'); $submit.attr('disabled', true);

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I think this challenge is faulty?

Select the submit button by its class and save it to a variable called `$submit`. Then use the appropriate jQuery method to disable the button by adding a `disabled` attribute to it.

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David Deberry

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Kieran Barker

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David Deberry

David Deberry

Kieran Barker

Kieran Barker

Matthew Gilbert

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