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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Modifying Elements

Joseph Bertino
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Joseph Bertino
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Joseph Bertino
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,652 Points

I'm on Pt. 2 of 2, and the error message reads "Bummer. You need to select the 'input' element, and store its value..."

I'm on Pt. 2 of 2, and the error message reads "Bummer. You need to select the 'input' element, and store its value...", even though the challenge prompt instructs us to return the text content of the <a> element with ID 'link'.

app.js 
var inputValue = document.querySelector('a#link').textContent;
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <label>Link Name:</label>
            <input type="text" id="linkName">
            <a id="link" href="https://teamtreehouse.com"></a>
        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Joseph Yhu
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Joseph Yhu
PHP Development Techdegree Graduate 48,635 Points

Select the a element with document.querySelector, and then set its textContent to the inputValue. Also, change the inputValue back to what it was in part 1.