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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Modifying Elements

Posted by Victor Marks
Victor Marks
1,784 Points

How do I get the text content of "a value" when it is a link?

I selected the value of linkName from previous question but not sure where to go from here.

app.js 
let inputValue = document.getElementById('linkName').value;
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <label>Link Name:</label>
            <input type="text" id="linkName">
            <a id="link" href="https://teamtreehouse.com"></a>
        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>
Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy
11,661 Points
Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy
11,661 Points

Hi Victor,

The question is asking you to "Set the text content of the a tag to be the value stored in the variable inputValue". So you first need to select the a tags and then that value into the previous variable. Here are my codes for your reference:

let inputValue = document.getElementById('linkName').value;

let link = document.getElementById('link');

link.innerText = inputValue;

Hope that helps, Luke.

1 Answer

Victor Marks
Victor Marks
1,784 Points
Victor Marks
Victor Marks
1,784 Points

Thanks a bunch Luke. That helped a lot!