Set the text content of the a tag to be the value stored in the variable inputValue.

This entire course is very confusing. The JavaScript courses were excellent, but the challenges and videos in this one are not clear.

Good Morning!

You're over thinking it! The challenge, 2nd step, just wants you to set the text of your link to the value in your inputValue. You already stored your inputValue (#linkName.value), this challenge is just wanting you to assign that string to the anchor's text value.

let inputValue = document.querySelector('#linkName').value;
let anchor = document.querySelector("#link");

anchor.innerText = inputValue;

This question has to be reworded. I read it as set the a tags content inside of the variable inputValue. I kept getting it wrong until I realized this.

I agree that this is badly worded. The quizzes in this whole course have been much more vaguely-worded than those in other courses I've taken.

Is there a way to flag this question? This was a poorly worded question and it clearly has confused a lot of people.

WTF is up with this question. I got more confused entering the 2nd part of the challenge. Usually, Treehouse does a good job of explaining things better. Not so much with this course.

Also,

let inputValue = document.getElementById("linkName").value;
let anchor  =  document.getElementById("link"); 
anchor.textContent = inputValue;

will work.

Glad I was not the only one extremely confused by the wording of this question, thanks for the help!

Well this was confusing

I agree, since some of the questions are vague, is natural we tend to overthink the solution.

let inputValue =  document.getElementById ('linkName');
inputValue = linkName.value;
let anchor = document.querySelector('a');
anchor.textContent = inputValue;

or

let inputValue =  document.getElementById ('linkName').value;
let anchor = document.querySelector('a');
anchor.textContent = inputValue;

or

let inputValue =  document.getElementById ('linkName').value;
let anchor = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
anchor.textContent = inputValue; 

Thank you for your help on this one, I was getting a little confused too with the wording!

Wow, thank you very much Michael Davis:) Now I get the point, I think what made me confused is the direction of the challenge that asks to "store"the content of a tag into the variable inputValue (but to "store" something we need to still use var, let, or const keyword isn't it? or not? :-D). It made me think that I need to store "a" into var inputValue. Anyway need to learn more, and once again thank you very much, everyone in this forum is really nice and helpful.

let inputValue = linkName.value;

link.textContent = inputValue;

This whole thing hurts my brain. In a bad way. Please rephrase/rework these questions.

I agree with everyone here. This course needs to be done over. The challenges do not match up well with how it is being taught here.

I have never had this with any the other TeamTreeHouse courses.

It also looks like nobody from Team Treehouse is monitoring this or they would do something!

same problem. this course challenges is so confusing

Previous videos and their challenges were co-related , but this part is not at all related. I mean the videos teach something else but the questions are different , and I have to post it in the community every time. Not sure how to go forward.

Here I was, almost pulling out my eyes because I thought I was going insane, felt like dumb-rock, till I found out literally hundreds of other people were experiencing the same problem. Yes, this track really does suck, sorry for my language but I'm beyond angry that they haven't tackled these issue's yet.

December, 2018 update: This is still an issue. They may have included a link TO A PREVIOUS SECTION which I watched for clarification, and it didn't help clarify. Treehouse, please listen to your community and make some meaningful adjustments! Honestly trying to solve this, and then reaching to outside resources, and then eventually copying/pasting the solution isn't an ideal way for a student to learn.

My response may be a little dated, but it seems some of you are getting a little discouraged. If this stuff was easy everyone would be doing it!. Speaking from my personal perspective I've reached this point in this course in about a week your mileage may vary. The point is if I put you in a Spanish classroom for 8 hrs a day for one week and then threw you into a room full of native fluent Spanish speaking people.....Do you think you could carry on a conversation with them? Most likely NOT! So, the point to the story is, hold your head hi and don't let this stuff get you down! You can do it if you dedicate yourself to it! It's a grind and your going to have good days and bad days but don't give up!! Do what you can and then get on google and research ask the question just like you have been doing and when all else fails, look up the answer. Study the code line by line and when you come to something you don't understand Stop! research it and ask questions before you move on! I promise you once you get your first language down moving forward with this craft becomes easier! My first programming language was python. HOLLY COW was if difficult to even get started.....Questions like this would stop me dead in my tracks and I wouldn't even know where to begin. ...But what python taught me, that can be applied to other languages. is how to approach problems and break them down to their simplest forms. So, far Javascript and any kind of development is the same way! Every program no matter what it is! Starts with simply declaring a variable.....then a loop.....maybe a function..then one function turns into 10 then 50. The point is to start small and build up.....Brick walls aren't only build from the ground up...they are built one brick at a time!

I am with pretty much everybody here. This guy sucks in comparison. Free youtube videos literally taught me more in an hour then 10 hours of banging my head against the keyboard trying to figure out what this guys trying to tell me.

Why I am thinking that teachers do not read this comments at all? Maybe its time to try different course...

let anchor = document.getElementById("link");
anchor.innerHTML = inputValue;

this is correct, but I had help from you, I hope this will make sence later on

let inputValue = linkName.value; link.textContent = inputValue; // assigns value of link to the text of anchor

One point on losing to learn JS from here and guess what i saw all confused, I think the question need to be reworded and made clear.

let input = document.querySelector(`#linkName`);
let inputValue = input.value;
let anchor = document.querySelector(`#link`);
anchor.textContent = inputValue;

This worked for me.

This whole DOM track has been confusing to me. Glad I were not the only one. Half of it feels pointless and literally does the same thing. And I haven't really grasped all of it either. I just prefer using jQuery, even though I JUST watched these videos, I barely undertand it.

the DOM track has been confusing to me aswell. I think part of it is do to the change of teachers. but this question on specific had me at a stand still. my first thought was to just re write the code so that im setting any potential text from the a tag equal to original inputValue variable. I see now that this is definitly not the case

Treehouse, please use similar approaches to lessons with Dave. I flew through those but once i got here it became confusing. Teach a lesson and then slightly veer off into a coding quiz that isn't the same stuff but the same information...

Seriously glad to be a part of this community. The wording of this question is confusing. Thanks for your help everyone in here.

I agree that the first question does not have any issue with the reading, however, the second does, gives a little bit of mis-interpretation, however, when I get the error, I did read as many times, till I got to understand, that what the question is about.

One thing, the requirement giver, will not always, the same from person to person.

you have an HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <label>Link Name:</label>
            <input type="text" id="linkName">
            <a id="link" href="https://teamtreehouse.com"></a>
        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

<!--and if you break the questions-->
<!--q1) Store the value of the text input element in the variable inputValue.-->
<!--I do not think anyone would have an issue-->
let inputValue = document.getElementById("linkName").value;

<!--question 2-->
<!--Set the text content of the a tag to be the value stored in the variable inputValue.-->
<!--break the question, set the text content of the a tag, there is only one a tag, that too could be retreived
by using the ID and the property we have to target from JavaScript would be innerHTML,
and now, break the question again, with an additional step, set the text content of the a tag, to be the
value to be stored, in the variable inputValue-->
document.getElementById("link").innerHTML = inputValue

let inputValue = linkName.value; link.textContent = inputValue;

Well that was weird.

this worked for me. :

let inputValue = document.querySelector("input").value;
document.querySelector("#link").textContent  = inputValue;

I agree with you Erik!

Yeah I want to add my name to the list of people who found this section on the DOM confusing. There's stuff in the exercises that isn't really demonstrated in the videos and some of the questions are really confusingly worded.

You need to declare the link as a variable before you mess with it,

So declare a variable called 'link' and connect it with the <a> element

then access the textContent property of this variable and make it equal to the input

Also,

let inputValue = linkName.value; let link = document.getElementById('link'); link.innerHTML = inputValue;

will work :)

I found this hard to follow as well. I think it this course is better for people who have done some Javascript and DoM and are just looking to refine some fundamentals. As someone who has never coded before I found this really hard to follow along.