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JavaScript jQuery Basics Introducing jQuery Using text() and html()

Posted by Hilary Katsande
Hilary Katsande
9,045 Points

please help

Jquery to select the paragraph tag by its class name

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1 class="profile-header"></h1>
    <p class="profile-text"></p>

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
$ ('blogParagrahPreview').Class("paragrah");

1 Answer

Jake Milburn
Jake Milburn
13,608 Points

You can put the class straight into the jquery selector to target it in a similar way to how you would with css. The task is asking you to find the class on the paragraph tag and place it into the jquery selector. Also be careful to not to forget the dot since it is a class.

$( '.profile-text' )