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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM DOM Manipulation

Colin Sygiel
Colin Sygiel
5,249 Points
Posted by Colin Sygiel
Colin Sygiel
5,249 Points

Why is my last statement not passing the final challenge?

const contentDiv = document.getElementById("content");
const newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
newParagraph.className = 'panel';
document.getElementByTagName("p").appendChild(contentDiv);
app.js 
const contentDiv = document.getElementById("content");
const newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
newParagraph.className = 'panel';
document.getElementByTagName("p").appendChild(contentDiv);
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">

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

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You're trying to append a div to a paragraph as a child node instead of the other way around. Take a look:

contentDiv.appendChild(newParagraph);

We already used JS to get the content div and assign it to a variable. Then we created a paragraph. Now, we just append the paragraph we created to the content div as a child node. Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Colin Sygiel
Colin Sygiel
5,249 Points
Colin Sygiel
Colin Sygiel
5,249 Points

Aha! Makes sense that the child is the paragraph belonging to the parent of the content div :) Thanks Jen, happy trails!