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Noga Anaby
Courses Plus Student 4,255 PointsJquery Basics: setting a value code challenge
couldn't anderstand the perticular question "A prompt dialog will open prompting for someone's full name. Use jQuery to follow the comments in code. First, select the correct input, and then set it's value to the fullName."
my fale answer: ' ' ' //Show Prompt Window and store value var fullName = prompt("What is your full name?");
//Select Input with the id of #fullName fullName = '<p id="fullName">'fullName"</p>" //Insert value in to full name input $("#fullName").val($("#fullName").attr(fullName)); ' ' '
2 Answers
Luke Pettway
16,593 PointsSo what this challenge is asking you to do is the following:
Assign the text entered into a dialog prompt to a variable.
Change the value of an input to the value of that variable.
// 1. Create a variable called fullName, and then assign the value of a prompt to it
var fullName = prompt("What is your full name?");
//2. Select the input with an id of fullName then change the value to fullName
$('#fullName').val(fullName);
Noga Anaby
Courses Plus Student 4,255 Pointsthank you very much!
Matthias Nörr
8,614 PointsMatthias Nörr
8,614 PointsWhy do you use single quotation marks?
$('#fullName')Luke Pettway
16,593 PointsLuke Pettway
16,593 PointsMatthias Nörr, you can use either single or double quotes, it's a matter of preference, aside from when you need to escape similar quotation marks. Where I work, our standard is to always use single quotes when we can, just for the sake of consistency, so because of that I stick with single quotes. I also feel like at least in my personal opinion they are easier to parse visually.