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JavaScript Interacting with the DOM Responding to Events Common DOM Interaction Errors

Daniel Rose
Daniel Rose
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Posted by Daniel Rose
Daniel Rose
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The naming of ID/Class names

Why would all the HTML IDs and Class names be camelCase in the course examples? I thought the convention for naming these HTML attributes is to use lowercase, and if multi-word, separate the words using the hyphen character. A little confusing for a newbie like myself.

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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Hey Daniel Rose ! :wave:

I just downloaded the project files for this Interacting with the DOM course to take a second look and I'm not sure that I'm seeing what you're seeing.

In the index.html file provided I see all the class names are hyphen-separated input-main, btn-toggle, list-container etc. The variables created in the JavaScript are camelCase which is to be expected. I may be missing something though, can you let me know exactly the course / video you're on and seeing this? Thanks!

Daniel Rose
Daniel Rose
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Daniel Rose
Daniel Rose
4,848 Points

Hey Travis, thanks for taking the time to look. I've double-checked myself and was sure I was seeing the issue in the instruction part of the course, but I was wrong.