Setting value challenge. How can I fix it?

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.

js/app.js

//Show Prompt Window and store value
var fullName = prompt("What is your full name?");

//Select Input with the id of #fullName

$("#fullName").select();

//Insert value in to full name input

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<label for="fullName">Full Name</label><input id="fullName" name="fullName" value="" disabled>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2016-09-12T09:59:57Z

September 12, 2016 9:59am

Hi Bade, for this code challenge we are asked to select an input with an id of #fullName and populate it with the fullName value that the user is prompted to give us.

To select the input with the id of #fullName we can do the following:

$('#fullName')

we are then asked to add whatever the user gives to the prompt (var fullName) to this input, we can do this like so:

$('#fullName').attr('value', fullName);

Or we can condense this whole process down into one line by simply doing the following:

//Show Prompt Window and store value
var fullName = prompt("What is your full name?");

//Select Input with the id of #fullName AND Insert value in to full name input

$('#fullName').val(fullName);

Hope that helps!!

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Setting value challenge. How can I fix it?

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