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

Posted by Brian Johnson
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Brian Johnson
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 20,818 Points

I'm not sure how append paragraph element to dom.

Please help I've tried looking MDN and tried multiple times to solve but it keeps saying "task 1 is no longer passing"

app.js 
const contentDiv = document.getElementById("content");
let newParagraph = document.createElement('p');
let div = document.getElementByTagName('div')[0];
newParagraph.className = 'panel';

div.appendChild(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

Amber Fuller
Amber Fuller
4,598 Points

I'm not on that section yet, but have you tried something like contentDiv.appendChild(newParagraph); ?

Brian Johnson
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Brian Johnson
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 20,818 Points

thx that was it!