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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Traversing Elements with querySelector

Posted by Leon Segal
Leon Segal
14,754 Points

input[type=checkbox]

How did he know this was the right way to identify the element?

He mentioned css3, is it on another course?

I thought I had css pretty well covered, but maybe not as well as I thought!

2 Answers

Cosmin Cioaclฤƒ
Cosmin Cioaclฤƒ
21,339 Points
Cosmin Cioaclฤƒ
Cosmin Cioaclฤƒ
21,339 Points

There are two inputs in the list item. One is a text input and the other is checkbox.

The difference between the two is the value of the html attribute "type".

In CSS3 you can select something by its attribute like so:

[attr="something"]

In this case he chose to select the input that has an attribute of "type" with a value of "checkbox" to target what he needed.

If you need more info you can check the MDN docs here.

Leon Segal
Leon Segal
14,754 Points
Leon Segal
Leon Segal
14,754 Points

thanks!