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Andre MacNamara
6,621 PointsWhy do you have to set the list items class name to empty and full.
Why do you have to set the list items class name to empty and full.
Why can't to set it to any other string
HTML += '<li class="empty">'; } else{ HTML += '<li class="full">';
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Erik Nuber
20,629 PointsIf you are doing the lesson that creates the little tiny red/green bullets on the side of the page, you are doing these settings because there is already CSS written for those specific classes. I believe it was a lesson where you were setting whether or not someone was in/out and then if an office was empty or full.
If not, there is no reason you have to set class names to anything specific. They are there to allow you either style them more easily or to grab them with JS/jQuery.