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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Modifying Elements

Posted by AF Content
AF Content
21,460 Points

Why isnt the checkbox working for a user generated task

It looks like I am able to add a task to to incompletedTaskHolder correctly, but when I check the checkbox for the task that I added nothing is happening. In the html, the type "checkbox" seems to be correct, and when I check the original checkboxes, the list items are moving from incompleted task to completed task sections correct.

my code for my createNewTaskElement function is below

//New Task List Item
var createNewTaskElement = function(taskString){
  //create list item
  var listItem = document.createElement('li');

  var checkBox = document.createElement('input');

  var label = document.createElement('label');

  var editInput = document.createElement('input');

  var editButton = document.createElement('button');

  var deleteButton = document.createElement('button');

    //each elements, needs modifying
  checkBox.type = "checkbox";
  editInput.type = "text";

  editButton.innerText = "Edit";
  editButton.className = "edit";
  deleteButton.innerText = "Delete";
  deleteButton.className = "delete";
  label.innerText = taskString;

    //each elements, needs appended
  listItem.appendChild(checkBox);
  listItem.appendChild(label);
  listItem.appendChild(editInput);
  listItem.appendChild(editButton);
  listItem.appendChild(deleteButton);

  return listItem;
}
Karen Freeman-Smith
Karen Freeman-Smith
29,248 Points

You don't have any code here for catching the "change" when the checkbox is clicked. It was added later on in the course, so that may not be a problem yet...but something that is solved in the next video or two.