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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal Events with jQuery

Posted by Kinkaid Nolen
Kinkaid Nolen
4,859 Points

I don't understand the issue?

Did I use event. target wrong?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Student List</h2>

    <ul class="student-list">
        <li>James McAvoy</li>
        <li>Alena Holligan</li>
        <li>Wade Christensen</li>
        <li>Matt Krzyzynski</li>
    </ul>

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
$('.student-list').on('click',function (event) {
  event.target.hide();
});

1 Answer

Jan Oberreiter
Jan Oberreiter
78,020 Points

you should use a arrow function. You write:

$('.student-list').on('click', (e)=>{
});

where it actually should be:

$('.student-list').on('click', event => {});

and also ... sometimes it's a bit particular about things ...