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JavaScript

Posted by Muaaz Matwadia
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Muaaz Matwadia
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,327 Points

To Do List

How do a get the clear button to clear all items in the list

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <!-- displays site properly based on user's device -->
  <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="./images/favicon-32x32.png">

  <title>To Do List</title>

</head>
<body>
  <header>
    <h1>ToDo</h1>

    <img src='images/icon-sun.svg' alt="sun for light mode" id="sun">

    <form>
      <input type="text" placeholder="Create a new todo..." name="listItem" id='create'></input>


  </header>

<ul id='list'></ul>
<!-- <img src="images/icon-cross.svg" alt='cross to delete list item'> -->


  <div class="buttons">
<button>All</button>
<button>Active</button>
<button>Completed</button>
</div>
 <button id="clear">Clear</button>

</form>

  <div class="attribution">
   Coded by <a href="#">Muaaz Matwadia</a>.
  </div>
  <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
}

```CSS{

body{
    display:flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-self: center;
    align-items: center;
    /* background-color: rgb(228, 227, 227); */
    background-color: #e5e5e5;
}

header{
    background: url('images/bg-mobile-light.jpg') ;
    background-size: cover;
    padding: 40px;
}
form{
    box-shadow: 0 4px 10px rgba(0, 0,0, 0.1);
    width: 300px;

}
h1{
    font-size: 2rem;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color:#ffffff;
    display: inline;
    margin-right: 80px;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
}

input{

    width: 80%;
    margin: 30px;
}

input:focus{
    outline-color: blueviolet;
}
#create{
    display:block;
    padding: 15px;
    margin: 10px;
}

.buttons{
    background-color: #ffffff;
    padding: 15px;
    border-radius: 6px;
}

a{
    margin: 15px;

}


}

```js{
const form = document.querySelector('form');
const createListItem = document.querySelector('input');
const ul = document.getElementById('list');
createListItem.focus()

form.addEventListener('submit' , (e) =>{
   e.preventDefault();
   let newItem = createListItem.value;
   const li = document.createElement('li');
   li.textContent = newItem ;
   ul.appendChild(li);
   createListItem.value = '';
   const check = document.createElement('input');
   check.type = 'checkbox';
   check.className = "checkboxes";
   ul.appendChild(check);
   const liImg = document.createElement('img') ;
   liImg.src = 'images/icon-cross.svg';
   ul.appendChild(liImg);

  liImg.addEventListener('click' ,(e) => {
    ul.remove('li')

});


});

const clearAll = document.getElementById('clear')
}

1 Answer

Jassim Alhatem
Jassim Alhatem
20,883 Points

Hi Azzie Fuzzie,

There many ways but this is the simplest:

const list = document.querySelector('#list')

function clearAll(){
    list.innerHTML = "";
}

btn.addEventListener('click', clearAll);