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JavaScript jQuery Basics Working with jQuery Collections Working with jQuery-Specific Selectors

Posted by arshia mohammadi
arshia mohammadi
7,657 Points

what is missing here in this code challenge?

CSS is being used to hide three items on the index.html page (two <li> elements and a <div> element). Use jQuery's :hidden pseudo selector and the show() method to display the hidden <li> elements, while leaving the <div> element hidden.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Star Trek Characters</h2>

    <ul class="character-list">
        <li>Captain Jean Luc Picard</li>
        <li>Data</li>
        <li>Worf</li>
        <li>Dr. Crusher</li>
    </ul>

    <div>I am supposed to stay hidden!</div>    

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
const show = $('li:hidden');
show.show();
Nick Van der zwart
Nick Van der zwart
6,962 Points

You do not need to put the $('li:hidden'); into a variable. so then your code will look like this

$("li:hidden").show();

1 Answer

Ross King
Ross King
20,704 Points
Ross King
Ross King
20,704 Points

Sorry in a rush to give a detailed answer, hopefully someone can give explanations.

Working example:

$('li:hidden').show();