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JavaScript

Posted by Katre Salu
Katre Salu
2,891 Points

Why there isn't quotes surrounding li in this line of code ul.removeChild(li); ?

Why there isn't quotes surrounding li here? '''javascript ul.removeChild(li); ? '''

But for example here there are quotes. '''javascript let li = document.createElement('li'); '''

2 Answers

Joey Frazer
Joey Frazer
Courses Plus Student 129 Points

Hello. The reason why it doesn't have quotes is because you are defining the li here: 

let li = document.createElement('li');

and you are using the li variable here:

ul.removeChild(li);

First, you define the variable li to "li" and use li as "li" in the other code.

Hope you understand.

Katre Salu
Katre Salu
2,891 Points

Yes, thank you :-)

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

You're passing in a variable as an argument to removeChild. You can't do this if you add quotes as what you'd be doing there is directly passing in a string! :-)