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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Appending and Removing Elements

Marcus Barnett
Marcus Barnett
5,687 Points
Posted by Marcus Barnett
Marcus Barnett
5,687 Points

How is this wrong?

For some reason my code is not working when asked to remove the child element from the body. That is exactly how he types the syntax in the video. Am I really missing something here?

app.js 
var body = document.body;
var newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
var pleaseEnableParagraph = document.querySelector("#please_enable");

//Remove "Please Enable JavaScript" paragraph
body.removeChild("p");
//Append new paragaph to document
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <p id="please_enable">Please Enable JavaScript</p>

    <script src="app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

I haven't watched the video, but this should work:

var p = document.getElementById("please_enable");
body.removeChild(p);
rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points
rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

The challenge probably wants you to use the provided pleaseEnableParagraph variable to remove the paragraph. Try using the variable, instead of the general paragraph selector.

Happy coding!