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Joao Rocha
7,172 Pointssimple jQuery question
Hi there,
I think I don't quite get this challenge. It's not a jQuery coding issue but more of actually understanding what we are supposed to do, specially on this line : "//Select Input with the id of #fullName".
Thank you very much
//Show Prompt Window and store value
var fullName = prompt("What is your full name?");
//Select Input with the id of #fullName
//Insert value in to full name input
<!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>
4 Answers
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 PointsHey Joao, in this question you have to select the HTML Input element with the id #fullName using jQuery. HINT: $("")
Joao Rocha
7,172 Pointshi Jesus,
thanks for your reply. I get that, I'm actually much further into the course now and have managed to get every other challenge done, I just don't get this line of code. Am I just supposed to do $("#fullName"),
on that line?
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 PointsYeah, seems like it and then add the value of the prompt into the value of the input element
Joao Rocha
7,172 Pointsso, on the next line:
$("#fullName").val($(fullName).val())
?
Joao Rocha
7,172 PointsRight, so I got it to work now.
But I had to do
$("#fullName").val(fullName)
rather than what I typed before. I'm assuming this happens because we're storing a string into a variable so we should refer to the variable itself when we need to use its value rather than trying to get a value out of it?
Would this be why?
Thanks a lot for your help.