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JavaScript One Solution

David Regel
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David Regel
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Posted by David Regel
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David Regel
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 5,504 Points

Question regardin jQuery

This is the task:

//4. Select and print the index and text of each anchor tag to the console
$('a').each(function(index, item){
  console.log(index, $(item).text());
});

Why do we have to use a $ (jQuery) in this function "$(item).text());"?

Why is just "item.text());" not working?

1 Answer

lukehegarty
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lukehegarty
lukehegarty
7,496 Points

Hi David,

.text() is not a native method to vanilla JavaScript. In order to use the .text() method you must first access 'item' as a jQuery object by passing it to the jQuery() method, aka $().

Hope that helps!