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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM DOM Manipulation

Richard Preske
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Richard Preske
Courses Plus Student 4,356 Points
Posted by Richard Preske
Richard Preske
Courses Plus Student 4,356 Points

trouble with this last part of the challenge

Having trouble appending the newParagraph element.

app.js 
var contentDiv = document.getElementById('content');
var newParagraph = document.createElement('p');
newParagraph.className = 'panel';
contentDiv.appendChild('newParagraph');
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">
          <p class = "panel"></p>   
        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Richard Preske ! You're off to a terrific start and I'll bet you knew that given that you passed the first 2 steps of the challenge. The problem lies in the last line. You are passing in the string 'newParagrah' as opposed to the variable newParagraph. Removing the single quotes from the last line solves this issue.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: