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JavaScript jQuery Basics Introducing jQuery Getting Values from Form Fields

Ophelia Onobrakpeya
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Ophelia Onobrakpeya
Courses Plus Student 7,264 Points
Posted by Ophelia Onobrakpeya
Ophelia Onobrakpeya
Courses Plus Student 7,264 Points

I am clearly doing this wrong. can anyone help me?

This might be a sign that I am not quite understanding the lesson, but can someone help me figure this out, please?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2 class="profile-name">Treasure Porth</h2>
    <p class="profile-text">I am a web developer!</p>

    <label>Change name:<input id="name-input" type="text"></label>
    <button>Change</button>

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
$('button').click(function() {
  // Write code here
const newName = $('#name-input').val()
const name = $('.profile-name').val()

$('.profile-name').text("name")
});

1 Answer

Justin Cantley
Justin Cantley
18,068 Points
Justin Cantley
Justin Cantley
18,068 Points

You need to set the text value of the jQuery object with the argument 'profile-name' to the variable newName that you declared in the first part of the challenge. The code should look like this:

$('button').click(function() {
// Write code here
  const newName = $('#name-input').val();

  $('.profile-name').text(newName);  
});