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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Responding to User Interaction Adding an Event Listener

SyntaxError: app.js: Assigning to rvalue `w` (5:3)

Hi,

Any idea to pass it?

app.js
var warning = document.getElementById("warning");
var button = document.getElementById("makeItRed");
 button.addEventListener('click', () => {

   warning.background-color = red;

 });
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Adding an Event Listener</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="warning">
            Warning: My background should be red!
        </div>
        <button id="makeItRed">Make It Red!</button>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Hey jc laurent,

You were very close. The only thing you need to replace is warning.background-color = red with warning.style.backgroundColor = "red" in the button click handler !

This is how it should look:

button.addEventListener('click', () => {
  warning.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
})

To learn more about this property, check out this website: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_style_backgroundcolor.asp

Happy Coding!

thks again!