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index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>JavaScript and the DOM</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <section>
            <h1>Making a Webpage Interactive</h1>
            <p>JavaScript is an exciting language that you can use to power web servers, create desktop programs, and even control robots. But JavaScript got its start in the browser way back in 1995.</p>
            <hr>
            <p>Things to Learn</p>
            <ul>
                <li>Item One: <input type="text"></li>
                <li>Item Two: <input type="text"></li>
                <li>Item Three: <input type="text"></li>
                <li>Item Four: <input type="text"></li>
            </ul>
            <button>Save</button>
        </section>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

app.js

let section = document.getElementsByTagName('section')[0];

section.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
  if (e.target.tagName == 'section') {
  e.target.style.backgroundColor = 'rgb(255, 255, 0)';
  }
  });

Answer 1 · 2018-01-18T18:42:51Z

January 18, 2018 6:42pm

You are testing if the e.target.tagName is equal to 'section', which is where the event listener already is. You want to drill down further on your conditional to target only the input elements, so you would use 'INPUT'.

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