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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Responding to User Interaction Event Delegation

Edmundo Ruiz
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 Points
Posted by Edmundo Ruiz
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 Points

Cant get this one

I have tried everything I can think of.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>JavaScript and the DOM</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <section>
            <h1>Making a Webpage Interactive</h1>
            <p>JavaScript is an exciting language that you can use to power web servers, create desktop programs, and even control robots. But JavaScript got its start in the browser way back in 1995.</p>
            <hr>
            <p>Things to Learn</p>
            <ul>
                <li>Item One: <input type="text"></li>
                <li>Item Two: <input type="text"></li>
                <li>Item Three: <input type="text"></li>
                <li>Item Four: <input type="text"></li>
            </ul>
            <button>Save</button>
        </section>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>
app.js 
let section = document.getElementsByTagName('section')[0];

section.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
  e.target.style.backgroundColor = 'rgb(255, 255, 0)';
});

2 Answers

Dev Guy
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Dev Guy
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Dev Guy
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Hi, Edmundo. I believe this was the instruction for the challenge; "In the listener that has been added to the section element, ensure that the text input elements are the only children that trigger the background-changing behavior." This is the solution for the challenge.

let section = document.getElementsByTagName('section')[0];

section.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
  if(e.target.tagName === "INPUT") {
  e.target.style.backgroundColor = 'rgb(255, 255, 0)';
  }
});

In order to ensure that the text input elements are the only children that trigger the background-changing behavior, you would need to use an if statement to check for the tag name of the event target. Remember the .tagName property returns the tag name of an element capitalized.... I hope this helps.

ingridg
ingridg
4,728 Points

Thank you soooo much, I totally forgot the tag name returns capitalized!!!