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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Spoiler Revealer Using append()

Jesse Vollick
Jesse Vollick
5,060 Points
Posted by Jesse Vollick
Jesse Vollick
5,060 Points

Why won't the Button show up???

All it is asking is to append the button to the span. Why is this not working?

js/app.js 
//Prevent spoilerphobes from seeing spoilers
//Solution: Hide spoilers and reveal them through user interaction

//1, Hide spoiler
$(".spoiler span").hide();
//2, Add a button
$(".spoiler").append("<button> Reveal Spoiler! </button>");
//3, When button pressed
  //3.1, Show spoiler
  //3.2, Get rid of button
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Star Wars Spoilers</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
    <img src="img/deathstar.png" />
    <p class="spoiler">
        <!--Spoiler:-->
        <span>Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's Father! Noooooooooooo!</span>
    </p>
    <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
    <script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Leslie Heinzen
Leslie Heinzen
26,662 Points
Leslie Heinzen
Leslie Heinzen
26,662 Points

Remove the whitespace around your button text and it should pass. Like this:

$(".spoiler").append("<button>Reveal Spoiler!</button>");
Daniel Gonzalez
Daniel Gonzalez
22,105 Points
Daniel Gonzalez
Daniel Gonzalez
22,105 Points

Hi Jesse,

You are really close! Change the double quotes around your button html tags to single quotes and the challenge should accept your code now. 

//Prevent spoilerphobes from seeing spoilers
//Solution: Hide spoilers and reveal them through user interaction

//1, Hide spoiler
$(".spoiler span").hide();
//2, Add a button
$(".spoiler").append('<button> Reveal Spoiler! </button>');
//3, When button pressed
  //3.1, Show spoiler
  //3.2, Get rid of button
Leslie Heinzen
Leslie Heinzen
26,662 Points

Single and double quotes are both acceptable for string literals in JavaScript. That will not make a difference.