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4,090 Pointswhy no quotations in datablock for appendChild() method?
Why is there no quotation in the appendChild() method below?
// function for creating item from bottom input tag
addItemButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
let ul = document.getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];
let li = document.createElement('li');
li.textContent = addItemInput.value;
ul.appendChild(li); // why no quotations like this 'li'?
});
Shouldn't it look like this?
ul.appendChild('li');
1 Answer
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Courses Plus Student 298 PointsYes, if you were appending a li
to a ul
it would indeed be ul.appendChild('li');
, but in this case there is a variable li
that contains an ˙li˙ element, and you are appending whatever is stored in the variable.