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JavaScript jQuery Basics Introducing jQuery Getting Values from Form Fields

Nikita Savelev
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Nikita Savelev
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 3,741 Points
Posted by Nikita Savelev
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Nikita Savelev
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 3,741 Points

Im so lost.

Not sure what its asking for the second part.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2 class="profile-name">Treasure Porth</h2>
    <p class="profile-text">I am a web developer!</p>

    <label>Change name:<input id="name-input" type="text"></label>
    <button>Change</button>

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
$('button').click(function() {
  const newName = $("#name-input").val();
  $(".profile-name").text()
});

1 Answer

Maxwell Newberry
Maxwell Newberry
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Maxwell Newberry
Maxwell Newberry
7,693 Points

You're close!

They are asking you to reassign the value of the header 2 element using the text() function. You are close, just take variable you to set up in task one and pass it as an argument in the function call in the next line.

$('button').click(function() {
  const newName = $("#name-input").val();
  $(".profile-name").text(newName);
});

This shows that when you select an element, in this case .profile-name, and pass something inside text() as a parameter, you are setting the text within the selected element's tags.