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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Modifying Elements

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JS and the DOM - setting text content challenge fail

I can't seem to pass this challenge for some reason? Strangely the question asks to reuse the same variable name from the first challenge which could be the issue?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <label>Link Name:</label>
            <input type="text" id="linkName">
            <a id="link" href="https://teamtreehouse.com"></a>
        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>
app.js 
let linkName = document.getElementById('linkName').value;
linkName = document.getElementsByTagName('a').textContent;

Update

app.js 
let linkName = document.getElementById('linkName').value;
const anchor = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
anchor.textContent = linkName;

1 Answer

Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
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Your assignment appears to be reversed.

The challenge says to: "Set the text content of the a tag to be the value stored in the variable linkName." But the code above is just changing the value in linkName.

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Hmmm sorry not understanding your comment here. So I should reassign linkName by using:

let linkName = document.getElementById('linkName').value; let linkName = document.getElementsByTagName('a').textContent;

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
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You should not change linkName at all for task 2.

The challenge tells you to give the value you already have stored in linkName to a document element. So the assignment you have now appears to have the left and right sides reversed.

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i'm still not getting what's required here. I've updated my code but that still doesn't pass for some reason?

Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
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Has the challenge changed since you first asked?

It seems like the instructions are now asking for a different variable name! So task 1 now says, "Store the value of the text input element in the variable inputValue." So on line 1 you'll need change linkName to inputValue. You'll need to do the same on line 3 when you get to task 2.

But you have another problem using getElementsByTagName. That returns an element collection, not a single element, so it would have no *textContent * property. But if you look at the HTML, you'll see that anchor also has an id property so you could select it the same way you selected the input element.

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Whoops! Thanks