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HTML jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Perform: Part 1

Anthony Candaele
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Anthony Candaele
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 32,135 Points

uncaught TypeError

Hi, I followed along, but when I click an image in the gallery, instead of showing the href attribute value in the console, I get a "uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'parentNode' of undefined it says the error is in background.js on line 39

2 Answers

Eric Martz
Eric Martz
16,007 Points

Can you post your code here? That would make it easier to diagnose the issue.