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JavaScript jQuery Basics Introducing jQuery Getting Values from Form Fields

Posted by Qasim Rashad
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Qasim Rashad
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,837 Points

need assistance

I'm having trouble completing this task, am I'm doing something wrong?

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 constant =    $(".profile-name").text("newName")
});

1 Answer

Tim Acker
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Tim Acker
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 31,247 Points
Tim Acker
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Tim Acker
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$('button').click(function() {
  // Write code here
  const newName = $("#name-input").val();
  $(".profile-name").text(newName);
});

When you are setting the text in .profile-name, you are passing the text method a variable called newName. Since this is a variable and not at string, you do not enclose it in quotes. Also, you don't need to assign $(".profile-name").text(newName); to a variable since you are using the text method as a setter function by passing in an argument. If you were using the text method as a getter function then something like const profileName = $(".profile-name").text(); without an argument would make sense.