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JavaScript

Pls, help me achieve this .....

https://codepen.io/Cheeko/pen/GXOPvR

summary of my Project:------------ You can ad add and remove words or item you type in the input field by clicking add button and remove added item by clicking remove button.

But I want something else to happen......

When someone tries to click remove item button if there is no li element then i want to show an alert message that there is nothing to remove ...

(Pardon my eng)

pls, let me know if my code is not well structured or written... I m learning javascript.

there is my code on Codepen

2 Answers

all u need is a simple if statement in your remove button event listener,

// removeButton event
removeButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
  if(document.querySelector('li:last-child')){
    li = document.querySelector('li:last-child');
  rainbow.removeChild(li);     
     }else{
       alert('there is nothing to remove');
     }

});

by writing the condition like this -->

if(document.querySelector('li:last-child'))

i'm simply saying that if there was an li item go on and remove it , but if there wasn't any li item then the result of this if will be false and then the else block fires which is the alert message that we want ;)

happy coding

Thanks sam .. I was having trouble achieving that ...

Thank YOU

you are very welcome , all the bests