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Daniel Coria
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,380 PointsI don't understand what this task is asking me to do
On the second task. "Set the text content of the a tag to be the value stored in the variable inputValue." I'm having a hard time understanding this wording. What 'text content' from the <a> tag? And, I have already stored the .value of inputValue from the previous task. Am I supposed to reasign the value of inputValue to the 'text' of the <a> tag? I would really appreciate any feedback. I'm still pretty new here.
let inputValue = document.getElementById('linkName').value;
inputValue.value = document.querySelector('a').textContent;
<!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>
3 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there, Daniel! The challenge is asking you to change the text inside the link or anchor tag to the text that's currently inside the text field. You've already gotten the text from the text field and assigned it to a variable. So I'm going to give some hints and I think you can get it from this:
- First select the anchor tag
- The anchor tag has an ID that makes it easily selectable
- You can use the
textContentand assign the value stored in theinputValueto what you've selected - Remember that we assign from right to left.
x = 10;The variablexwill have 10 assigned into it - Your
inputValuewill be on the right side of the equals sign
I think you can get it with these hints, but let me know if you're still stuck!
John Knotts
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 10,836 PointsHi Jennifer... I fully understand the concept and with your clarification this is no problem at all, but I just wanted to chime in because the wording of that question is VERY confusing. I also thought I was supposed to reassign the value of inputValue.
Carlos Chang Cheng
Courses Plus Student 12,030 Pointsthanks Jennifer Nordell great feedback!
Daniel Coria
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,380 PointsDaniel Coria
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,380 PointsThank you Jennifer! I was able to get past it with your help. I don't know if I'm allowed to post my code here to show my work (in case it gives away the answer for other readers). Thank you for your response and for helping me.